瑞士阿尔卑斯山脉地区之上有一个小镇生活着Ursli的一家，包括他的父母、家里的动物以及他的好伙伴Sereina。Ursli是个地道的大山的孩子，却有着不同一般的神奇能力：他能理解动物的语言。夏末来临,Ursli和他的父母下山走向村庄,骑着马车运送他们的收成，然而，所有的汗水换来的努力都葬送在了一处悬崖边。眼看冬天降临，而全家的经济收入都成了泡影，Ursli不得不放弃自己心爱的山羊把它交到店主坏心眼的儿子手中，可是这些依然不能填补他们的债务。
在Chalandamarz节的除夕夜里，按照山里的习俗，每人都会收到一个代表辞旧迎新的铃，Ursli收到的却是最小的一个，为了给全家找到最大的铃，Ursli最终决定亲自到山顶上的小屋里寻找……

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of he official police.

In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.