The musically highly gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a young stable boy who dreams of owning his own horse. Both have to learn that they can only escape their lack of opportunities if they team up.
A crazy referendum throws Switzerland into a state of emergency. By the acceptance of the initiative “No Bilangue” there should be from now on only one national language: French. Many German-speaking Swiss are therefore having a crisis.
The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, Christine goes from savior to hunted.
When her apartment is terminated, student Nelly moves with her slightly demented grandmother to her plot in the community garden. Inspired and supported by her enamoured neighbour, she sets off to fight the pedantic president of the family garden, Franco, and unwittingly shakes the well-kept secret that once divided her family - and which had its beginning in the colourful and multicultural community garden world.
Andreas Matti (born 21 December 1959) is a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Born in Saanen in Switzerland, Andreas Matti lives in the municipality of Zürich. His most popular role is the character of Rolf Aebersold in the Swiss comedy serial Fascht e Familie in the 1990s, later he was part of the Lüthi und Blanc cast and played in the Swiss television drama Sonjas Rückkehr alongside Melanie Winiger. Andreas Matti made his acting training at the Academy of Arts in Bern und was a regular guest at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and at the Theater am Neumarkt at Neumarkt, Zürich. Source: Article "Andreas Matti" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.