Billie lives with her father on a hacienda in the Argentinian pampas. She masters all the skills you need to survive in this part of the world: she can swing a lasso, round up cattle at full gallop and she’s a skilled markswoman. A friend of her father’s thinks she lacks ladylike refinement and arranges for her to go to Europe. At a finishing school, she is supposed to learn good manners and how to use a knife and fork. But Billie successfully resists all attempts at being educated and instead encourages the other girls at the school to misbehave.

During an unauthorised visit to the circus, Billie impresses the audience with her knife-throwing skills and is promptly dismissed from school. But she already has other plans: Together with lots of other young women who are inspired by her energy, Billie sets up The Republic of Flappers on a lonely island with the help of a large sum of stolen money and appoints herself president. She even gets the island’s official ruler to dance to her tune. This anarcho-feminist utopia mercilessly satirises everything and anything − no hierarchy is safe from Billie’s mockery. (BS)

»Direction and photography are the ultimate in ingenuity, taste and accuracy of effect. But what is so endearing and delightful about this film is Käthe von Nagy: young, pretty, bubbling with exuberance and vivacity, one of the strongest talents in German film. She is so very much in the foreground that everything around pales into insignificance. A great, very great success.«
– Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, 16.10.1928