After 25 years of marriage, a farming couple want to go on vacation for the first time, but not together - the farm care would not allow it. So each spouse takes a Mediterranean cruise every six months. After the wife's departure, the husband falls victim to well-known male weaknesses as a "straw widower" and even wants to take on a former travel acquaintance as a comforting girlfriend.

Juvenile detention or retirement home: That's the choice 17-year-old Malu is faced with after she's been caught stealing again. In order to save the girl from imprisonment, her aunt Johanna agrees to take Malu in with her until she has completed her social service in a retirement home. The rebellious half-orphan, whose single father Paul has hardly any time for her as a pilot, initially finds being placed with her aunt just as restrictive as a stay in prison.

Franziska Luginsland protects the girl Jolanda from the police and helps him to find his mother.