Like a fairy tale. . . Everything begins at the turn of the 19th century. She, Victoria, is the daughter of a tower lord and he, Johannes, is the son of a miller. They are children and life is still simple. And even this future has the colors of strength.

The common people on one side, the aristocracy on the other. What does it matter? Johannes is filled with a thousand dreams of love: Victoria will be his. Unless. . . reality never ceases to intervene. Sometimes it hovers or is concealed, at times it is felt subtly. But it is never abolished.

Victoria is one of the most beautiful love novels of modern literature. And one of the most desperate. When destiny prepares its traps, it mocks souls and crushes dreams. Love as the ultimate embodiment of the tragic nature of human fate.

Johannes and Victoria, Victoria and Johannes, or the clinical tableau of thwarted passions.