Hamburg, 1925. Frieda couldn’t be happier. She’s about to get married, and the chocolate company is going from strength to strength. At long last she seems to have found her place in the family enterprise. The one thing she wants to do before the wedding is go on a trip with her parents, who are planning to visit her relatives in America. Yet when they arrive in the USA there’s a surprise in store for the Hannemanns: they meet their grandfather’s unmarried half-sister, who nobody in the family knew even existed. This encounter with the older, self-assured lady leaves a deep impression on Frieda – will she be able to look back on her life one day with the same satisfaction and sense of peace? Back in Hamburg, she has a wedding to plan – until suddenly, unexpectedly, the love of her life shows up.

Frieda has some tough decisions ahead of her in the years to come. Not only must she fight for happiness in her personal life but she’s also faced with an increasingly difficult task: to stand by her Jewish friend Clara during one of the darkest periods in German history.