In a small, tranquil Upper Bavarian town at the beginning of the 20th century. Gretl Mooshammer, the daughter of the local landlord, was chosen to be this year's Schützenliesel. Gretl loves the border policeman Stefan Brandner, which her gruff, bumbling mister papa doesn't like at all. Because once as a young man he had courted Brandner's mother Therese and received a basket from her at the time. In the course of the plot, several events lead to the fact that the Schützenliesel’s relationship with their loved one is temporarily ruptured. But then Gretl sees what she has in her Stefan when he bravely single-handedly arrests a gang of smugglers. At the upcoming Schützenfest, the lovers will finally be reconciled.