Stockholm's most magnificent department store and a group of brave women who find a way through dramatic times together... 1912: Stockholm is a city on the upswing, the most magnificent department store in Northern Europe has just been built in the center on Hamngatan. Märta's joy at her employment there is dampened when her German fiancé has to return home to serve his country in the midst of the looming chaos of war. But she doesn't give up hope: because in the Nordiska Kompaniet, the department store of dreams, she finds new friends, all of whom carry their own secrets around with them. Together they brave many a storm - and lead the department store to brilliant successes... Read also 'Stockholm - The Fabulous Women of the Grand Hôtel', winner of the coveted Swedish Feelgood Award. Biography (Karin Dufner)