The mountain farmer Leonhard, who lives alone, sits on a gold vein: an underground spring supplies his alpine pasture with healing water. Leonhard, who has remained mentally on the level of a big child, is not so with business matters. The native Bavarian finally wants to find the woman for life. When Leonhard falls in love with the vacationer Beate, who like him, has remained at the mental level of a child, there is no doubt for him.