Wiesbaden, 1945. The Second World War is over, and the Café Engel - once a meeting place for dazzling personalities - was miraculously spared. When Hilde Koch and her mother Else reopen the café, the first conflicts soon cloud the young peace. Hilde feels set back by the arrival of the beautiful Luise, who introduces herself as a cousin who has fled from East Prussia. A rivalry grows between the unequal cousins that threatens to poison the atmosphere in the café. Until both women realize that they have something in common: a secret from wartime that they fear to this day -.