Widowed baker Zürrer has to raise his three children, who all turn out to be disappointments to him in various ways.

Karl Wieser, the Zurich tram driver, is a henpecked husband. When he is chosen to give a demonstration ride to foreign experts, he gains favor with...

Janet Freeman (Gaby Jaeger), the daughter of the English nuclear researcher Clive (Jürgen Goslar) and his wife Lucy (Eva-Ingeborg Scholz), is...