A powerful family. Dramatic entanglements. A house hiding more than one secret.
Augsburg in 1916. The Cloth Villa, the seat of the industrialist family Melzer, has been turned into a military hospital. The daughters of the family and their staff are looking after the wounded, while Marie, Paul Melzer’s young wife, has taken on the management of the cloth factory.
Then sad news reaches her: her brother-in-law has been killed at the front and her husband taken prisoner. While Marie is struggling to hold the family inheritance together and trying not to lose hope of a reunion with Paul, the elegant Ernst von Klippstein appears on the scene in the Cloth Villa – and casts an eye on Marie …