
Sweet-natured midwife Antonia leaves Berlin – and her unfaithful boyfriend – to start a new life in Bavaria. There she finds a job in a clinic where the staff, however, is critical of her "new-fangled" obstetric methods. But with her winning ways and solid experience, she breaks down all barriers – including those surrounding the heart of Dr. Thomas Hellmann. Unfortunately, he happens to be engaged to the head physician's daughter. And Antonia's boyfriend also isn't ready to concede defeat...