exile to Elba, kings and crown princes, ministers and spies, noble ladies and mistresses, soldiers of fortune, inventors, artists and concubines celebrate and negotiate in Vienna, where the fate of Europe is ultimately decided on the dance floor and in the boudoir. They spin schemes, spy, denounce, blackmail, threaten, cheat, dance, drink, feast, hope, fornicate, love, hate, lie, rob, mutilate and murder. The great game of fortune, love, and power has begun... backstage at the Congress of Vienna. Between champagne, love affairs and power games, Wilhelmine von Sagan, arch-schemer, royalist and
Prince Metternich’s mistress, has a fateful encounter

with
Baron Amor Łaski, a Bonapartist and rake. The French
Foreign Minister Talleyrand plays off the victorious powers Austria, Prussia, Russia

and England against each other, while the
Tsar and his sister conspire with the
king of Prussia. When Seidl, a minor bureaucrat, forges a letter to

discredit his rival, he unleashes a chain of fateful consequences that forces all the players to make risky decisions. Who will win the great game of luck, love and power?