Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.
as Déryné
as Déry
as Déry anyja
as Intendáns
as Jancsó, öreg színész
as Schodelné
as Magyar úr, dilettáns színész
as Ifjú gróf
as Zongorázó fiú
as Capuletné
as Színésznõ