In this crazy comedy The Swineherd is a poor young man instead of a prince in disguise. He and the princess fall in love but their secret affair is revealed after a scandal in the pigsty. The king sends the princess of to marry a lunatic dictator of a neighbouring country and The Swineherd invents one master plan after the other to save her, but fails to succeed. Ultimately he and his friend disguise themselves as weavers, who want to present their new sensational collection to the court: Clothes that can only be seen by intelligent people who really deserves their high rank in society.