In Liebe, Layla

Summer 1938: Layla Beck, the daughter of a senator from Washington, is disinherited by her father after a broken engagement and sent to the sleepy town of Macedonia in West Virginia, where she is to serve as the town clerk. Layla is furious; in her eyes, she can only go completely mad from boredom there. Thus, she arrives in the town with just one goal: to leave as quickly as possible. The story of the small town seems perfectly suited for this plan, as it is extremely short and uneventful. However, once Layla settles into her room in the Romeyns' house and gets to know the residents better, she quickly realizes that life there holds some surprises for her. Even behind the facade of the venerable hosiery factory, there seems to be more than what she is initially told. And in the end, Layla will not only...