A white villa, an aristocratic family, and the dream of great happiness. In the spring of 1939, 19-year-old Flora Hoffmann dreams of a better life. Growing up with five sisters in modest circumstances, the family's daily life in the rural idyll of the island of Rügen is marked by hard work and deprivation. The young maid has only one goal: wealth and power. She pursues the path to that goal with all her might, making decisions that will change her life forever. Fifty years later, Flora Countess von Langenberg returns for the first time to the small seaside resort on the Baltic coast where it all began. Once again, she wanders through the old villa, which once held all her longing. Lonely yet determined, the nearly seventy-year-old embarks on a journey into the past, which holds far more pain than hope for her. But even this.