May 1913: Konstantin, the earl’s eldest son and heir to Greifenau Manor, dares to do something outrageous: he falls in love with a commoner, and even worse she is the village teacher, Rebecca Kurscheidt, a staunch social democrat. Meanwhile, the earl’s wife is planning a dream wedding for Katharina, her youngest daughter, who is to marry a nephew of the German Kaiser – even though it soon becomes clear that a beast lurks behind his aristocratic façade. However, her heart also belongs to another. The earl’s two children play hide and seek with both their parents and the society. No matter how well they hide their secret love affairs, they are both unavoidably heading towards a catastrophe...
