Shortly before her wedding with the smart businessman Paul, the Munich veterinarian Nina learns that her beloved Aunt Charlotte is hospitalized with a heart attack. Nina immediately travels to Lake Chiemsee to visit Charlotte. Once there, her aunt asks her not to marry Paul - he is the wrong man for Nina. An alternative candidate has the older lady already ready: the sympathetic artist Daniel, who is about to move in with his little son at Charlotte.
At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall
Durante los años 20, antes del ascenso de Hitler al poder, en Baviera vive un matrimonio formado por Hanni y Xavier Bolwieser. Él es el jefe de la estación del tren y está enamoradísimo de su mujer; ella, en cambio, se siente infeliz en su matrimonio y es infiel a su marido. Ésta es la tragedia de un hombre capaz de llegar a una degradación absoluta con tal de mantener a su mujer a su lado.
The young Count Ettingen leads a dissolute life in Munich with the demanding Baroness Prankha at his side. To finance his life, he has his uncle cut down the forests in his estate without caring about the consequences. When he catches his girlfriend having an affair, however, he retreats to the mountains. From the young alpine dairymaid Lore he learns about another side of life and wants to stop the overexploitation of the forest. But the baroness still wants his money.
