After the death of his mother, 12-year-old Moritz begins to act in ways that distress the aunt he is living with, so she packs him off to Spain to be with his father. At the airport he meets "Don Quichote" - or is it? The lost boy and the deluded man have some adventures, all with a happy ending.

A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to her family's desperate situation.