Marga Engel is a human soul. For a year now, the traditional Bavarian cook has been part of the household of the shrewd real estate agent Siegfried Ohrmann and, thanks to her ingenious recipes for body and soul, has become indispensable. As a principled woman, Marga has fought one or two battles with the cunning profiteer Ohrmann. But when she has to witness how Ohrmann cheats on his wife Nele with his attractive assistant Sybille Gronius, "Engelchen" resigns without notice. Marga doesn't even grease a roll for someone like Ohrmann anymore. Unfortunately, the warnings of her good friend Dr. Gössel come too quickly Reality: Marga is soon not only without a job, but also without a roof over her head. Fortunately, Ohrmann's daughter Olga still has a trump card up her sleeve: the idyllic old inn that her father once signed over to her to save on taxes is now standing empty. With a little color, good ideas - and above all with Marga's original recipes - the formerly popular excursion restaurant offers the cook a new home and the ideal workplace at the same time. While Marga full of vigor gets the inn going again, dark clouds gather Because Ohrmann has completely different plans for the property: the profiteer wants the nearby sport for a potent British investor expand airport. Unfortunately, Marga's cooking paradise is right in the planned flight path. The excavators soon arrive to flatten the nice inn when one of the workers makes a surprising find: the property contains evidence of early Saxon pottery, and construction work is stopped. But Ohrmann doesn't give up that easily.
—ADR Das Erste