Bäuerlein Heiri hat sein Kalb verkauft und feiert diesen temporären Reichtum in der grossen Stadt. Aber dort lauern allzu viele Verführungen und Gefahren: Taschendiebe, zweitklassige Künstler und Dirnen versuchen, dem naiven Mann aus Hausen am Albis das Geld aus der Tasche zu ziehen. Doch, als aus allen Banknoten Alkohol geworden ist, will von den angeblichen Freunden keiner mehr etwas von Heiri wissen.

Fifty years after graduating from school, Senta von Meissen invites eight former school friends to a class reunion at her castle. The table is set for ten people. One place remains empty: Teddy, the hostess's former school sweetheart, died in an accident on her graduation trip to the Rhine Falls. But was it really an accident? The evening turns into a murderous act of revenge.

Theophil Läppli is a swiss patriot, who after a trip to Greece tries to recover the democratic roots of Switzerland. With much enthusiasm and idealism he's discovering, that corruption and greed are wide spread in his beloved country. This is the second movie about Theophil Läppli after HD-Soldat Läppli (1959).