Marriage is a venture of compromise. When this is complicated by having the couple raised in very different cultures this compromise venture becomes a tragic comedy. The meeting, romance, and marriage of Arthur, Cristen Rathburn, and Ursula Inge Rauch is a fun and informative story of such a match. How can a happy union result, when it faces the many cultural barriers thrown up between a carefree boy from small mountain village in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California and an urban minded, sophisticated, German girl raised with old Prussian standards?