Fifteen years ago, the man from Plön moved into our valley. He bought the remote farm Huschlalm on the northern side of the valley, five hundred meters above the village. With these sentences, Franziska Riethmüller begins her report about the mysterious and taciturn man who came from the far north and settled in a remote alpine valley. The villagers speculate about the motives of this outsider, and the children sneak around his house, peering through the windows to see what the man does in his room. They discover that he spends his evenings quite differently than their fathers: he reads books. As a young woman, Franziska gets to know this man better when she works for him. However, he remains a mystery to her, especially because he marries not the lively Vicky, but the simple Gerda. When various people from the Plön man's hometown appear in the alpine valley, she senses...