Katja, una madre separada y con dos hijas, decide aceptar un puesto de médico en Suecia. Pero esto le traerá problemas con su exmarido, quien se niega a entender sus razones, ya que no concibe la vida apartada de sus hijas. Sus desacuerdos parecen destinados a acabar en una batalla legal por su custodia en los juzgados.
A poor peasant woman lives in a cabin in the woods. She grows two rose-trees in front of her house, one with white roses and one with red. When the flowers bloomed she had two children, both girls. She named them both after the trees, Snow White and Rose Red respectively. They have an adventure involving a bad dwarf and a bewitched bear.
Music teacher Carlo, an easygoing old rock'n'roller, meets doctor Ellen in hospital. She is completely stressed out, so that even son Franz often falls by the wayside. A short time later, Carlo makes an unforgivable mistake: fed up with the pupils' never-ending paltry questions, he advises Franz, whose anger at his mother is slowly boiling over, that he should simply report her to the Youth Welfare Office.
