Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the stone by dropping it in a well. After losing the sharpening stone, he is relieved because it weighed heavy, and continues his happy journey to his mother's house. On his way home, he keeps running into Knudsen the Merchant and his beautiful daughter Elisabeth.
Anton Spieker
as Hans
Michelle Barthel
as Elisabeth
Gustav Peter Wöhler
as Thomas Knudsen
Heino Ferch
as Herr
Sebastian Ströbel
as Junker
Max Hopp
as Bauer
Karoline Bär
as Wirtin
Uli Pleßmann
as Stellmacher
Timo Dierkes
as Metzger
Alexander Finkenwirth
as Bursche
Wanda Perdelwitz
as Mutter
Torsten Hammann
as Wirt
