Mali and Martin inherit a hotel but she has to marry within a year to keep it. Martin appears as a tramp. He and Mali have a marriage of convenience. Martin tests her by pretending to be his well-mannered and well-dressed brother Gustl.
Fishing village St. Peter. Christian reacts on a contact ad but Marta, the woman from St. Pauli, is not his type. He rather wants Eva but does her father allow that? Maid Monika wants to marry Boni. But Boni has to deal with Marta first.
Liesl and Nikl run an inn. Attractive Joschi opens a fitness school. Fritz and Klara love each other but aunt Irma forbids contact with him. Snob Porsch comes with his 'niece' Ilona; she urges him to buy the inn. Nikl manipulates things.
Widow and coal dealer Anni is highly indebted. Xaver wants to give her financial aid. Schorsch dissuades Toni a relation with Fanny. She gets pregnant of a married artist and does a suicide attempt. Korbi is shy in front of Martha.
Maids Vroni and Lena eagerly want to become the wife of their farmer Markus. In secret he loves the new maid Christl but he doesn't accept that as the truth. His best friend Kilian tricks him out.
Michl, Lenz and Renzl: three bachelors each seek a suitable woman. But when the women Annie, Agnes and Agathe show up it gets quite confusing; which one belongs to whom, and who is that household seller?
Niece Ada doesn't come on Julie's birthday. Hans hires actress Mausi to pretend to be Ada. Mausi changes Resi into a beautiful woman to gain postman Ulrich. August gets the suspect that his wife Julie deceives him with another man.
By accident Gustl and Frieda double rent the room to Peter and Andrea. They have to avoid that the tenants meet each other. Andrea's mother Hanna marries Peter's father Walter. In the upper house Fritz is dominated by his moody wife.
Gundl is enamored by Flori but he prefers his job as tourist organizer, he says. Her father Alois neglects his wife Marianne. The three summer guests, Hermine, Inge, Gustl, concoct a plan to change this to the better.
To get a railway station the municipal of Ehrbach needs a minimum of 3,000 residents. Mayor Sixtus' daughter Burgl and Valentin, son of tramp Georg, get an extramarital child. Georg makes a smart move.
The inn keeper is in financial trouble because of competitor Mathias, owner of the Black Cat. His staff lures guest by pretending to be the Black Cat. Guest Ria recognizes married Mathias as the lost father of her daughter.
Maid Cilly bore a son but she and Genofeva keep silent for farm help Sepp that he is the father. Farmer Korbi want to sell his farm because he lacks an heir. Genofeva presents him a baby, a boy, and Korbi could pretend that it is his.
Inn keeper Vinzenz has to go to jail a few days. Uncle Xaver, Toni's money giver, comes; Toni has to pretend to be a married inn owner with twin brother Pauli being there. But Vinzenz returns earlier and oversensitive Johann checks in.
Sofie is jealous on Anna, secretary of her husband, mayor Markus. Shady Fleiderer hires Loisl to eavesdrop mayor's secrets. Loisl flirts with Anna who repels him. When Fleiderer profits from secret information his plan gets crisscrossed.
Widow Julia reports baker master Alois to the police for insulting. Alois allows snob Mr. Fink the hand of his daughter Klara who actually loves waiter Ludwig. Other daughter Gusti states to be a pregnant child. Xaver flirts with Amalie.
Bernhard persuades his wife Claudia to go 5 days to her mother while he goes for business to Hanover. In real he wants to be undisturbed with Catherina. Claudia plans time at home with Robert. Housekeeper Anna tries to keep them apart.
Waitress Cilli wants farm help Vestl; he and rich Emmerenz love each other. Farmer Friedl and Marianne still have no kids. Mass server hints them pilgrimage. Emmerenz turns back pregnant. Can they make Thomas believe that he is the father?
Minister asks initial money for a subvention to turn almost bankrupt farm into a guesthouse. Zenzi wants farm help Gabriel back. Stranded Rosl appears to feel at home on the farm. But Wastl has only eyes for Trixi who came with her father.
Tommi and Steffie have a secret relation; their child is underway. Her mother Margit divorced from Ernst who has to move out reluctantly. Margit gives her lover Othello money for his medical practice. But can he be trusted?
Cleaning lady Lily claims that she saw Richard's corpse that is suddenly gone. She works acquainted inspector Harry on his nerves. The secret lover of Richard's wife Susanne is not Robert who wants her. Someone attacks Lily in the dark.
Watch maker Niklas neglects life. Gunda (22) is hired for help; she boosts sales. Michl and Niklas are interest in her. Niklas kisses her during a dance but hurts her by minimizing the kiss. Gunda's father Hans has a word to say there.
Summer tourists Brunhilde and Anita check in. Cölestin and Sepp try to pester them away. Then married Sepp recognizes Anita as his old love. Hieronymus comes to buy antiquity from Cölestin.
Theres' roadhouse lacks customers. For money entertainer Olf tries to lure guests. Olf's wife Petra appears with older guest Benedetto who is actually married with Anna. Benedetto's son Beppo also arrives.
Baker's son Kunibert has found love. Salesman Eule convinces four men from Waldstätten to visit erotic ladies in Siebenkirchen. They make their wives believe that they go hunting hares. Next day indications bring the men into trouble.
Lonely Sixtus has enough of his farm but possible spouse Zenz has no children alias heirs. Agath suppresses her husband Josef. New maid Vroni appears to be his extramarital daughter. Farm help Michl doesn't admit that he loves Vroni.
Guest Luise wants the farmer's trunk. Farmer Vinzenz promises maid Gundl to help making Fabian her man. Mariandl sees Gundl kissing her husband Vinzenz and finds a hair pin in his bed. Vinzenz on his turn keeps Karli for Mariandl's lover.
Rosl wants her daughter Kathrin to marry rich man Josef but she loves a painter. Kathrin's father Peter bought a worthless meadow and loses his seemingly winning lottery ticket to farmer Melles who sells it to Josef.
Inn keeper Rosa means that architect Krause might be a good husband. But he hides for her that he rather wants maid Walli. Rosa gets Anton as main waiter but rather sends him home. Ursula's postcard to Anton says that she comes.
Brothers Pauli, Peter and Juliander lack a woman on their farm now maid Veronika is long-term injured. Girgl knows a rich woman who might become the new farmer's wife. Juliander finds a baby at the door. Pastor sends Marlene as nursemaid.
Babette hires Hilde to organize the wedding of daughter Konstanze with snob Benno. Konstanze and her father Theobald are against. She loves confectioner Martin but mother finds him below their level. Theobald and Babette get quarrels.
Hias doesn't want Schorsch for his daughter Anni although she loves him. As mayor Hias demands discipline during the village feast. But he gets drunk himself and causes a scandal. Now Hias seeks a way to keep the scandal out of public.
Although Anni and Gustl love each other, the teacher writes her poems. Maid Kathi seeks a lover. Pig Jolanthe is seized by the gendarme because Hartl hasn't paid taxes. The pig is stolen out of 'custody' but is the teacher the culprit?
Johannes runs a store in tradition clothing and closes a deal with rich international businessmen. His children Anselm and Susi fight who will inherit the store. Stefan, friend of his daughter Susi, establish business with the USA.
Brewery owner Gustl met Anita. Thekla brings her husband Julius to the inn for recovery. Toni just started a relation with Hilde who happens to be Gustl's daughter. Karoline appears; her husband Gustl claims that Anita is Julius' wife.
Grandma comes accidentally with the bag of gangsters filled with crime stuff. Daughter Anna wants the police to be involved. The gangsters pretend to be police and take the bag; Grandma hid their notebook. Son Karl is arrested.
The mayor calls up the village women to stop their men from going to the pub where adulterous Hanni serves. They lock their bedrooms to keep the men out as punishment. Soon men and women experience that this is not what they want.
Christmas time. Monika is about to marry Werner. The unknown Amalie enters the house and predicts that this marriage will not take place. Is the business between Stefan and Heinrich at stake? Robert from America appears.
The marriage of Christa and Robert is dull. When his firm seems to go broke, they successfully agree to switch roles. Daughter Katja surprises them with twins but who is the father? House friend Siegi has enough of his wife Helene.