Madame Bäurin

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails The Urban the Schaubleins surprisingly announced their arrival In the past they were welcome as generous summer visitors But now the shortage years of the First World War prevail And the farmers wife suspects lazy parasites in the townsfolk The city family is indeed facing ruin Especially since the defiant daughter Rosalie has just knocked out a promising money marriage without regard to scandal The Rosalie is attracted to the Schiermoser heir Franz His mother already drives the thought of a Madame Bäurin to madness Everyone experiences a turbulent time of upheaval The end of the First World War will shake the social fronts as well as the new machine age