Die Liebe des Van Royk

In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, shipping magnate Heinrich Van Royk becomes perilously entangled with the ethereal opera singer Anya Volkova—a woman whose haunting melodies conceal revolutionary allegiances. As their illicit romance blooms amidst decaying Viennese ballrooms, Van Royk's empire crumbles under the weight of espionage, familial betrayal, and his brother Leopold's machinations to seize control of the maritime dynasty. The arrival of a mysterious cargo manifest implicating Van Royk in arms smuggling forces him to choose between preserving his legacy or fleeing with Anya, culminating in a devastating confrontation on the storm-lashed docks of Trieste where loyalty drowns in the Adriatic's unforgiving embrace.