Admiral von Schneider arranges a one-on-one date for Miss Sophie - one that is anything but conventional. Between dubious "medicine" and disarming confessions, the gentlemen reveal their true colors. In the end, one of the suitors takes matters into his own hands and bows out of the race.

After the trip to France, it seems the path is finally clear for one of the suitors. But he, too, has plenty of skeletons in his closet - and in the end, it's not just about the beginning of a great love, but about life and death itself.