A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl In the neighbourhood an old freedomfighter pits himself against bad types a pretty cinematicket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories Far away in Shanghai a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace