Herbst in Wien

Vienna 1916. In the last years of the First World War, difficult years begin for the Viennese bookseller Oskar Novak and his wife Marie. An injury spares Oskar a return to the front, but Marie suspects that he has experienced things he will probably never forget. Hunger and hardship characterise Vienna in those years, and the small bookshop in Währinger Straße does not make enough money.

When the worst of the hardship had been alleviated, fate came up with a new test in 1919: The Spanish flu is rampant in Vienna. Only the beginning of the new decade finally brings light back into Marie and Oskar's lives. In 1920 little Paul is born and the customers return to the bookshop. And with the free-spirited friend Fanni Gold comes the glamour of the 1920s: nightly visits to the theatre and coffee houses bring variety. But what is it about these women's meetings that Fanni wants to take her to? Suffrage for women - should Marie join her friend in this fight?.