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Felix Hechinger, head doorman at the Hotel Excelsior, has a soft spot for people and therefore believes that hotel guests shouldn’t be left to fend for themselves. As a result, he’s always kept busy making sure the guests are satisfied. "Corrigez la fortune" is his motto. To play the role of fate imperceptibly and gently—that is what Hechinger aims to do, even if he does not always receive thanks and his interventions in other people’s affairs sometimes turn out to be missteps.
In a small residential town, the two soldiers Peter and Nicky try to win the affections of the artist Ninon from the court theater. Their admiration clashes with their duties as soldiers and they are grounded. Nevertheless, they look at their Ninon in the theater, get caught and flee, with Peter losing his helmet in a girls' boarding school.
After 50 years of service, the district usher Johann Peter Neusigl is supposed to get awarded a Royal-Bavarian medal of merit. Since government director SteinbeiĂźl has announced that he wants to witness the awarding ceremony in person, district magistrate Kranzeder decided to splash out. He organises, with his wife Amalie, a banquet in their parlour, although both of them rather begrudge Neusigl the award. But after all, it is necessary to cut a good figure for the dignitaries. As the government director arrives, after a few incidents during his journey, belated, the event, however, has already degenerated into a boozy carousal which culminates in a scuffle.
CEO Ramsey Jr. ruthlessly dismisses the deserving vice president of his company, Ramsey & Co. Andrew Sloane, who has sacrificed himself for the company for decades, no longer fits his image of a determined, success-oriented manager. Sloane is to be replaced by the young Fred Staples, whom Ramsey ruthlessly promotes as the "new man." But the newcomer will inevitably follow in Sloane's footsteps and have to sacrifice his own values and morals for the job.
Lashing rain, thunderstorms, fog and a godforsaken, eerie train station: the mood among the six travelers who have to wait for their connecting train here in the middle of the night is extremely tense. In keeping with the gloomy scenery, the station master also tells his involuntary guests the story of the ghost train ...
