What has already been revealed as a historical trilogy finds, under this obvious continuation title to The village of fabricsNow find a first continuation barely three years apart so that we can keep the characters, surroundings and circumstances fresh.
Despite not dealing with the plot of a generational evolution, as often happens in plots that address the evolution of sagas, in this case the links to the past are a well from which narrative foundations emerge towards those great secrets that justify events and that they are closing circles.
It is the year 1916, in the middle of the Great War. The wealthy Melzer family must face new challenges in a world that is falling apart at forced marches with the advance of the conflict, the general impoverishment and the call to help for every German of good, be it military or civilian with possibilities to care for the wounded or to develop logistics functions in favor of a German empire in need of collaboration at all levels.
The protagonism of the admired Marie, who in the first part already knew how to carve out her own destiny around love and firm will, acquires on this occasion the epic of the woman facing a war in which threats multiplied for them. And yet, we find a Marie determined to run a textile factory whose supply of work, prosperity and glory threatens total collapse.
Tragedy shakes her completely when she discovers that her beloved Paul Melzer has been taken prisoner. Faced with the impossibility of doing anything to free him, his role at the helm of the factory becomes a flight forward, a murky exercise of hope.
Time passes and Paul still does not return in the shadows of that hateful first great conflict that shook the whole of Europe. Marie always had that firmness capable of drawing everyone, that magnetism to which Paul himself succumbed, in love and fascinated.
But in his absence, a guy like Ernst von Klippstein haunts Marie with his gloomy considerations about Paul's fate and Marie's need to allow herself to be sheltered by him in order to survive what is to come, for her sake, for the survival of so much people around him and for the sake of everything that the Melzers raised for many years ...
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