Jean Weiss runs a traditional, slow but perfectionist shoemaker's shop in a picturesque Alsatian town. When his cousin Jeanine comes claim her inherited share to fund a Berlin shoe-shop with groom of business convenience Rüdiger Walter, Jean abhors the idea of selling and even more her buyer, a soulless concrete developers firm, so he tries to temporize and insists to teach her the traditional métier. Luckily, she quickly fall for the charms of handsome local gentleman Marc von der Lohe even before she finds out he's a rich castle-owing baron.