Katja Baumann is a nurse working in a hospital in Munich. One day as she leaves the hospital she meets Tim Lechner, a young boy who tells her his mother is in the hospital and a rural domestic helper is in charge of him and his sisters but they don't feel quite right around her. Katja gives up her holiday with her husband and travels to Frühling to help Tim and his sisters until their mother can recover her health. Katja so enjoys her new domestic-help duty that she decides to stay in Frühling and collaborate with the parish priest to help families who are having difficulties.