The show runs every Thursday at 9:15 p.m. as part of the evening lineup of commercial broadcast channel RTL II.

Each episode of the docu-soap shows two women—as well as, alternatively, one or two (gay) men—who swap households and live with another family for 10 days.

The 90-minute program depicts how the participants struggle with, among other things, homesickness, a longing for their families and problems adapting to the environment.

On the tenth and last day of the swap the wives prepare for their trip home, and say goodbye to their substitute families.

Prisma Film produces with Tausche Familie a similarly successful format for Austrian television.