Though the Execution of the Romanov family, rumors and suspicions persist that one of his daughters, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, somehow escaped and was still alive. In 1928 Paris, a sickly woman resembling Anastasia is brought to the attention of former Russian General Bounine, now the proprietor of a successful Russian-themed nightclub. Bounine knows that while she was in a mental asylum, she told a nun that she was Anastasia. When approached by Bounine and addressed as the grand duchess, she refuses to have anything to do with him. She flees and tries to throw herself into the River Seine, but is stopped.