An ignoble and utterly unacceptable behaviour inside the classroom will eventually drag the respected and ethically unyielding gymnasium professor, Immanuel Rath, to the shabby Blue Angel--the cheap and questionable post-WWI German vaudeville cabaret where his students often frequent. Bent on putting an end to their continuous demoralisation by the theatre's enchanting star, Lola Lola, the iron-fisted academic will fall from grace, as his swift amorous infatuation leads to marriage. In the end, over the following years, a debased and entirely changed Rath will nurture an intense and obsessive fixation on Lola; however, one final mortification still awaits the professor in his hometown. Will Immanuel ever bounce back?—Nick Riganas