The influence of the Goldbaum family is tested by the spreading anti-semitism of the run-up to war, and against this backdrop the Goldbaum daughter Greta enters into an unpromising arranged marriage with an Englishman, separating her from her family as the divisions of conflict begin United across Europe, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children. So when Greta is sent to England to marry Albert, a distant cousin she has never met, the two form an instant dislike for one another.
