In 1920s Berlin, young Vicky Maler leaves her provincial home for the glamorous but impoverished city, finding work and love in a legendary department store.

Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she's looking for a job. But as soon as she gets there, her hopes and dreams are met with a cold awakening. With no place to stay and nothing to her name, she hires on to work as a saleswoman at a newly-established, glamorous department store. But the founders are also fighting for survival, just like Vicky. Times are tough. And it's about to get tougher: Vicky falls in love with the seemingly penniless pianist Harry. What she doesn't know yet, he is none other than the son of her boss, the department store owner Arthur. The class divide between them turns into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle, as his father has different plans for Harry. And so begins a love story that will always be impossible. But against all odds - or precisely because of them - it will outlast decades.