Sarah and Michael have swapped their house in Australia for a cottage in rural Cornwall via a house swap website. The change of scenery is intended to mend their damaged relationship. But complications arise right at the handover: Their swap partners Olivia and Fergus are running late, so a personal tour of the house is not possible.

In 1967, fate on a North German dike miraculously brings together the Black Forest cuckoo clock maker Gottlieb Dobischauf with his chosen one Leonore. The two marry, start a family and open the first cuckoo clock factory in the North, which achieves considerable success with the company motto "punctuality, precision, perfection".

Julianne returns to take over the vineyards of her ex-husband. The reunion between the two is tense, but the man has never stopped loving her ... and she don´t stopped to blame he for the death of her daughter.