The story, or so we think, of a Count trying to win the love of Caroline Brandt from the grasps of a distracted and inattentive composer Carl Maria von Weber.

Pabst shows that throughout all these love games, it's Carl Maria, the gauche unromantic side player who is actually the principal character. Relegated to the sidelines throughout the whole story he gains the spotlight at the end through his creation of something beautiful that the whole town excitedly celebrates. However…