Eight noble old ladies and their maids wait for the end of the Second World War in Königswald Castle. Princess Ursela has come to terms with her grandmother, the Countesses Hohenlohe, Dohna, Posadowsky and Woronzoff as well as Baroness Schweinitz and Baroness von Boehme. The Americans are advancing towards the castle from one side, the Russians are approaching from the other. Suddenly, however, Wehrmacht soldiers holed up in the castle to defend it. The old ladies do not want to be defended at all in order not to risk the destruction of their beloved castle. So they forge a crazy plan to get rid of the German soldiers ...