The television series revolves around the trivial aspects of everyday life as experienced by the Hesselbach family - providing a glimpse into the petit bourgeois milieu of the nascent Federal Republic of Germany.
Karl "Babba" Hesselbach (portrayed by Wolf Schmidt) is the proprietor of a small printing company and the publisher of the weekly newspaper called Weltschau am Sonntag.
Initially, the narrative unfolds in an undisclosed location in Hesse but transitions to the fictional town of Steintal in the concluding season.
Alongside this, other events within the personal lives of the characters primarily surrounding challenges stemming from the era's economic times.
As the season draws to a close, Heidi (Rose-Marie Kirstein) and Peter (Dieter Henkel), the Hesselbachs' offspring, conclude their studies at a boarding school and follow in their family's entrepreneurial footsteps, joining the printing and publishing business.