A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to die there.
Irene, the mayor of a Styrian community, also helps her mother and stepfather in their small department store and takes touching care of her 17-year-old brother. But when Paul Berger, an innovative cook, wants to take over the old village inn, wounds of the past break open and a dark secret slowly...
The successful Hamburg veterinary pharmacist Dieter Walling half-heartedly retires from business life in order to keep his promise to his wife Ingrid to move with her to her home in Munich. Dieter is actually reluctant to make this move. This makes the request from the seal sanctuary in St....