The new series by the SPIEGEL best-selling author: Liebenberg Castle, its servants - and a political scandal
Brandenburg at the start of the 20th Century: 18-Year-old Adelheid, daughter of a day labourer, is to start work as a parlour maid at Liebenberg Castle. Never in her wildest dreams did she think she could be so lucky because now she can care for her starving family. And she is also allowed to work alongside Viktor, a servant, to whom she felt attracted from the very first moment. But her happiness does not last long for someone begrudges her her luck and makes plans to trap the innocent girl. Adelheid is demoted to house maid and now has to share a small room with Hedda Pietsch, a more-experienced maid.
The two young women become friends in deed and are witnesses to one of the biggest scandals of Imperial Germany...