Rosa Von Praunheim loves older women-he admits as much in Dolly, Lotte and Maria-for their spunk and courage, for their histories, their age, and their agelessness. In this portrait of three German stars who left Hitler's Germany and never returned, Von Praunheim collects their recollections and their own honest assessments of their lives. Lotte Goslar was, and is, a clown and a dancer who developed her own grotesque and ironic style and never lost it. Touring Europe with the literary, anti-fascist cabaret "Peppermill," she landed in New York; in Hollywood, she worked with Elsa Lanchester and choreographed for Brecht. The "Pantomime Circus" which she founded in the fifties still performs world-wide. Dolly Haas describes her evolution from actress to spectator: a Ufa star at twenty, then a stage and screen star in Britain and America (best known for Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess), she became the wife of New York Times caricaturist Al Hirshfeld. The dancer Maria Piscator tells tales of flight and romance until her third marriage to theater director Edwin Piscator, with whom she co-founded the Dramatic Workshop, one of the most famous theater schools in New York. Of the three, clearly Lotte is a woman after Von Praunheim's own heart; where Dolly and Maria sit regally esconced in the plush living rooms of their married existence, Lotte conducts her interview from a country kitchen and garden, wearing a yellow clown-nose throughout.