Stuttgart law form senior partner Max von Holbach plans to retire in favor of daughter Elisabeth and her fiancee Daniel Kerner , both careerists. First she must pull off for Max's mate's major Black Forrest touristic real estate project the sale of destitute, yet unwilling farmer Karl Lindner's homestead. Semi-accidentally posing, with a broken-down car, as ZU researcher, she gets invited on the farm, gets on well with the family, finds out -while helping with field and barn chores- his parents whose life work he feels he must carry on want out anyhow, and the pair falls in love. * Having found out about his outstanding debt, she had the weapon the enforce foreclosure, but hesitates to break his dreams, even questions her own future in the urban rate race.