Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the side of his superiors, so they transfer him from the provinces to Munich without further ado.
Nina Kern, a divorced woman in her late twenties, will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a home for the displaced due to Nina’s many years of willful neglect.
The story of an unhappy, childless princess, her loving husband and the poor villagers threatened by a terrible disease, who finally received help from above.