1953. The war ended, making way for the rock-and-roll era and the rise of Hollywood cinema, but people were still mending old wounds and hating the German people. Michael Stern, a young German from a provincial town, never knew his father; his mother and uncle always kept the truth from him. Looking for answers, Michael arrived at a boarding school in the center of London, where he found not only true love and the best friends in the world, but also an elf-like curse brought from Ireland as a wedding gift.