Pride of the Marines

A wife and working mother finds herself living the life she always wanted after she inadvertently makes a wish on her 35th birthday but soon discovers that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

After her heart attack, Marianne Toeplitz should actually take it easy. But since the bus company Toeplitz-Reisen, her life's work, is threatened with bankruptcy, all of her energy is required. Marianne indignantly rejects her daughter Susanne's proposal to merge with the competition. There is also a lot of trouble privately: Susanne has booked a language holiday in England for her teenage daughter Nellie. The amorous Nellie is not at all enthusiastic about it, because she absolutely wants to visit her boyfriend in Rimini. Marianne remembers spending love holidays there as a young girl with a charming Italian - and so grandmother and granddaughter spontaneously set off for Rimini. Susanne is furious because she has already initiated the formalities at the bank. In the anxious anticipation of who will go down earlier: Marianne with her heart or the poorly repaired oldie bus, built in 1962, she drives after the two runaways together with her ex-husband Jan. Despite car breakdowns and traffic jams, the trip across the Alps will be unforgettable for everyone involved. Susanne and Jan mend their failed marriage, Nellie meets a nice Italian - and when Marianne meets her great love Giuseppe, she suddenly has the idea of her life .

When Jean Mackaye, a pretty and resourceful young woman, discovers that she has lost her fortune, she dresses in Salvation Army clothing and secures a job in the Bonner home as a Swedish cook. Mr. and Mrs. Bonner, an elderly couple preoccupied with the study of insects, are too busy to notice that their Swedish hired man Oscar is falling in love with Jean. However, Ted Burton, the son of a cranky old millionaire, soon falls so deeply in love with her that he convinces Oscar to resign and applies for the position himself. Burton, Sr., anxious to discover the reason for his son's odd behavior, becomes a boarder in the house. Following a series of adventures in which Jean saves the old man's life, Burton blesses the union of his son and the "Swedish cook."

A father, his son and some friends spend a weekend by the sea, but relationships worsen and tensions rise to the rhythm of the ever-changing tides.

An antique shop keeper inadvertently releases a wish-granting Genie from a lamp.