When Max and Tina find themselves snowed in their car on a mountain pass, Max tells a story that begins right there in the mountains during the time of the French Revolution. Jakob is a servant from the Greyerzerland. When he falls in love with Marie, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, her father is horrified. He first sends the boy into military service and later to tend sheep at the court of Louis XVI. There, people are so moved by Jakob's misfortune that they also bring Marie to Versailles. Alex Capus masterfully intertwines the adventure of the poor cowherd and the rich farmer's daughter with Max and Tina's night in the mountains. A delightful interplay between the centuries.