"There is never time and always time for love!" Young Agnes leads a sheltered life until the day the war sends out its feelers to her home town of Ravensburg. The slaughter has been going on for five years - thirty by the end. Soon her brothers have left with the soldiers, and Agnes can't stay at home either - she has fallen in love with a travelling singer. He leaves her in Stuttgart, pregnant and penniless. But Agnes is pretty and clever, and so she makes it from scullery maid to maid to the Württemberg princess. But the war always catches up with her. When her mother is dying, Agnes sets out to find her hostile brothers...
