After an international career as dog whisperer with his trusted Dusty, animal psychologist Stefan Suttner returns to found a school for search and rescue dogs in his native Tyrolian village Ellmau with his devoted US PA Nadja Smith in his late father's Alpine homestead. Local loner Xaver Riedel, who took care of the place so long, is taken aboard, but secretly still obeys his 'adoptive father', the manipulative mayor Christoph Wegerer, who wants the grounds for a lucrative hostel. Local vet Marion Bruckner charms Stefan, which helps after a rough start to agree ceasing a mountain slope for her brother Ralf's parachute school. It all climaxes around a dramatic rescue. .