A woman struggles to bring up her family while love and

friendship break through in times of war.

 One autumn afternoon in Barcelona, ​​Violeta, the author's mother, is told about the death of her brother Victor. And the great revelation comes with more news: Victor was adopted.

In 1942, Elsa, widow of a Luftwaffe aviator and mother of six children, including Violeta, returns to the village of Bavaria where she spent the summers of her childhood. She wants to take her children away from the war, but upon her arrival she finds out the family mansion is now a military hospital and she has to accommodate her family in a humble cottage on the mountain. While the country crumbles, her children grow up and live experiences that will make them mature quickly.

 Elsa, a struggling mother and an efficient worker, uses her knowledge as a midwife to help in the hospital, but is also a young woman who, despite the prevailing chaos, will through herself into an intense love story.