In August, the hop harvest begins near Tettnang, involving many seasonal outside workers. This is where the fields of great farmer friends Scharfenberg and Stammer are located. For the parents, it is certain that Konrad, the son of the Stammers, will later marry Sybille Scharfenberg. The attractive Auschra, a refugee girl, was hired at the Stammer farm. She and her family had to leave her property in East Prussia towards the end of the war. Her parents died while trying to escape. She now she knows Konrad, the heir to the court, who was quartered with his family during the war.