Die Gauklerin

"For love, there is never a time, and always a time!" Young Agnes leads a sheltered life until the day the war stretches its claws towards her hometown of Ravensburg. The slaughter has been ongoing for five years - it will ultimately last thirty. Soon her brothers are off with the soldiers, and Agnes cannot stay at home either - she has fallen in love with a traveling singer. He leaves her in Stuttgart, pregnant and destitute. But Agnes is pretty and clever, and she rises from being a scullery maid to becoming a lady-in-waiting to the Württemberg princess. However, the war continually catches up with her. When her mother is on her deathbed, Agnes sets out to find her estranged brothers...