A mansion – a powerful family – a dark secret …
Augsburg in 1913. Young Marie is taken on as a kitchen maid in the imposing Cloth Villa, the home of the Melzer family of industrialists. While the girl from the orphanage is trying to find her feet amongst the servants, the family upstairs are looking forward to the beginning of the coming winter’s ball season, which will see the coming out of Katharina, the pretty youngest daughter in the Melzer family. Only Paul, the family heir, stays away from all the turmoil, preferring his life as a student in Munich – until he meets Marie …