In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.

A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.