Das Geheimnis der Hebamme

Because his son was stillborn, Lord Wulfhart wants to have the young midwife Marthe's hands and feet cut off. She narrowly escapes from her village. To survive, she joins a group of Frankish settlers heading east to the Mark Meissen, where they aim to build a new, better life in still undeveloped territory. The leader of the settlers is the knight Christian, who becomes increasingly fascinated by Marthe and her healing knowledge. However, this also attracts the attention of Christian's fiercest enemy, an influential knight in the service of the Meissen margrave Otto von Wettin. Then, silver is discovered in Christian's village. The beginning of a settlers' saga set against the backdrop of the conflict between Barbarossa and Henry the Lion.