At the age of 19, Margarete flees from her violent master, is seduced by the historically famous advertising poster with the inscription "From maid to colonial lady" and is shipped by the German Women's Association to German South-West Africa in 1913 to marry a settler she does not know. She does not find the paradise she had hoped for, full of exotic animals and palm trees, but she bravely embraces the foreign world and the experiences that her new life brings. It is the story of ordinary people who experience incredible things in a faraway place. A story based on true events, which, against the backdrop of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples and both world wars, brings to light a hidden piece of German colonial history.
