Michi Wyss is a successful consultant who is making a career in Zurich. He has more or less alienated himself from the farming family from which he comes. When his father calls him one evening to ask if he can help him with repairs to the cowshed, Joel replies, "Don't you know what I earn per hour?" When father dear commits suicide not long afterwards by hanging himself in the stable, Michi regrets it terribly. He does not know, however, that his father has taken his own life: his mother has freed the remains of the noose, and laid it in the straw, so that it seems as if her husband has fallen. Soon after Father's death there are hijackers in front of the farm, which was not doing so well, on the coast. Although Joel doesn't feel the need to run the business, it seems that he is gradually becoming a farmer again at his mother's urging. But can he withstand all that intrigue?