Johannes Waller (Christoph M. Ohrt) moves up on the political ladder: he is smart, outspoken and successful and on the way to become the future foreign minister. His rise comes to a grinding halt after a quick affair with the wife of the Austrian embassador is leaked to the public. To save his career, Waller tries to get a one on one with the chancellor, but he never makes it to Berlin. After a car crash he gets stranded in a small village, named Kudrow, out in the boonies of Brandenburg. The next day, the full extent of this catastrophe becomes apparent to him: The chancellor has dropped him and left for a diplomatic business trip. Angry and desperate, Waller accepts the position the village people have offered him: Instead of foreign minister of Germany he becomes mayor of Kudrow.
But the job is not as easy as Waller thought, because he has to settle constant fights of the stubborn local farmers. However love finally finds him and causes him to reevaluate his values. When the villages young doctor Barbara Heinen (Julia Koschitz) and her 15 year old daughter move into the little garden house next to his house he falls in love for the first time and takes on the role of a substitute father for the girl. He remains “alone among stubborn farmer”, but love transforms him…
