[1] It is based on the memoirs of Christabel Bielenberg, an English woman married to a German lawyer during World War II.
Part of the series was filmed at the disused Camperdown Works jute mill complex in Dundee, which doubled for 1940s Berlin.
Christabel Burton's aspiration of living in harmony with her husband Peter Bielenberg is shattered when Germany slips into the full horror of the Nazi regime and war is declared.
[3] In the first episode, as wedding bells peal out across the English countryside, the bride's father is begging her to change her mind.
But Christabel insists on making an "impossible decision" – a commitment to married life in a country soon to be at war with her own.