Mr Akeno and the Secret of Green Tea
It is the 1870s, and 24-year-old Clara Winterfeld wants to support her family’s tea house in Berlin after her father’s death. In order to secure the business financially, she is preparing to marry her rich childhood friend Franz.
But her heart actually belongs to the Japanese tea merchant Akeno, who deals in green tea, a delicacy still unknown in Europe. After one passionate night, Akeno leaves for Japan. Clara is left with little more than a pile of secret letters and a precious tea caddy.
When, a few months later, she finds out that she is pregnant, she can’t work out whose child she is carrying… Desperate – but courageous – she wants nothing more than to follow her heart and leave Franz. But will she ever see Akeno again?