Liesel Landauer and her lifelong friend Hana are connected through an exceptional house, designed by architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in 1930s Czechoslovakia.

Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.

Wealthy newlyweds Liesel and Viktor have enlisted a famous architect to build them a new home which becomes the talk of 1930s Czechoslovakia. Liesel's friend Hana is nursing seemingly unrequited romantic feelings for her pal, while Viktor is caught in the act with nanny Kata. On the eve of Nazi invasion, Liesel and Viktor flee to neutral Switzerland with their two children. Almost immediately, Liesel misses her friend and realizes her feelings were more than platonic.—Canon y mus