Lukas returns home, having broken probably for good with Lea, and finds brothers, especially Jacob, taken with a baby foundling, whose mother is soon found but selfishly refuses to try motherhood, blaming her father and refusing to tell him or see the unknown father. The parish council expected Constanze Abels's reelection as chair to be annual routine, but she seals her fate bypassing out indignant when her deputy Anna Breckwoldt stands, promising a modern, soft style, endorsed by second preacher Marc Wenkstern, but taking over proves not so easy. .
—KGF Vissers