Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.
타치야마 산맥에서 자란 료는 어린시절부터 산밖에 모르는 아버지의 엄격함에 반감을 사며 도쿄에서 사회생활을 하지만 순간의 선택으로 몇십억이 왔다갔다하는 증권가의 스트레스에 염증을 느낀다. 어느날 산장에서 등산객을 구하고 사망한 아버지의 부고연락을 받고 급하게 고향으로 귀향한 료는 홀로남겨진 어머니는 여관과 스미레산장을 둘다 할수없다며 산장을 파노라고 얘기한다. 산장에서 일하는 아이 (사람이름)는 아쉬워하고 아버지의 흔적이 고스란히 남아있는 산장을 본 료는 급작스럽게 산장을 맡겠다고 하지만 주변지인들은 만만치 않노라며 걱정한다. 의욕은 앞서지만 호락호락하지않는 산장일에 갑자기 도움의 손길을 건내주는 고로상. 료는 아이와 고로상과 함께 힘겹지만 보람차게 산장을 꿎꿎히 지켜나간다.
When seminarian Martin Rufmann arrives in St. Eustachen, idyllically located in the Carinthian mountains, the local choral society is celebrating a joyous festival. Martin is the youngest son of the widowed head forester Thomas Rufmann. Martin's older brother Friedolin has inherited his father's love of hunting and is one of the best hunters in the area. He is also engaged to the pretty innkeeper's daughter Helene Schwarzaug. At the feast, Friedolin and his cronies drink heavily to the black liquor of the charcoal burner Krauthaas. Friedolin and the townspeople Günther have a loud argument in front of everyone. When Günther is found murdered a short time later, suspicion immediately falls on Friedolin. To save his brother, Martin accuses himself of the crime. The two brothers are arrested. The real culprit soon turns himself in, but in the meantime Thomas Rufmann has disappeared without a trace.
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.
A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter.
The film is about a piano player who falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this way won't stand.
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.