Seventy-year-old Cornelia spends three decades serving her spoiled descendants, enduring daily humiliation and scrubbing floors for relatives who view her as domestic help. Everything shatters when she overhears her granddaughter mocking her in fluent German, casually scheming with the rest of the household to steal her estate before she dies.
Refusing to suffer another slight, the former university scholar reclaims the legal deeds to her vast equestrian empire and cuts off their credit lines overnight. Armed with damning financial records that expose her son's fraudulent schemes, Cornelia takes back the lecture hall and forces her panicked heirs to confront life without her fortune.
