Max would have stayed on his lonely alp forever. Then this Yankee puts a flea in his ear and tells him that he can have any woman with an edelweiss. Max has an edelweiss. ...She lives in Rome and has the unusual name Maria. But unfortunately not only noble intentions. It's a matter of life and death. Max chooses Edelweiss and wins Maria as his wife. Everything looks like a happy ending, but Max finds himself in the far reaches of Siberia... He never wanted to go there. Not without Maria anyway, ...