Can a countess in a stagecoach stop the course of history? Dresden, 1756: Frederick the Great invades Saxony with the Prussian army. The Saxon court flees to Warsaw - only one remains. While the country is being plundered, the Imperial Countess von Brühl and her chambermaid make their way to Leipzig, where the Prussian king holds his audiences. Perhaps she can incite someone from his environment to commit a patriotic act? In an entertaining and knowledgeable way, Hans Pleschinski tells of a little-known event in German history - and its secret heroines. 'A graceful, elegant, serious joke. And an appeal borne of loving sympathy to the better Saxony, to which Germany owes so much.' Gustav Seibt, Süddeutsche Zeitung