A young French girl (Madeleine) travels with her Grandmother to Odessa. The Grandmother has business there (hoping to receive some sort of compensation for the house that she owned there before the revolution). While she is sorting this out, her granddaughter meets some local Soviet children and goes on various adventures in and around the city with them. Also tagging along is a young eastern Prince, whom Madeleine befriended on the ship on the way to Odessa. Madeleine is well meaning and always eager to help people but often seems to cause a commotion due to misunderstandings. Her rendition of the song "Darling I love you" (sung in English at a local school) is hilarious and not to be missed.—Kevin Steinhauer