In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest. When they join the funeral procession afterwards, the stork has just returned from Africa and joins her husband on the nest. So it comes as Grandad Schmal had predicted. The following flashback shows how it all began.
as Opa Schmahl
as Till Jaspers
as Vater Jaspers
as Mutter Jaspers
as Molkenthin
as Paul Faust
as Förster Voigt
as Anette Reimann
