Horst Schlämmer is back and he's fed up: Prices are rising, morale is falling, and the pubs are closing. In short: Germany is in a bit of a pickle! So the deputy editor-in-chief of the “Grevenbroicher Tagblatt” sets off on a grand journey with an even grander goal: he wants to bring a smile back to people’s faces! But how does one become happy? From southern Germany to Sylt, from Berlin to Büsum, he meets passers-by, celebrities and psychologists and asks them some tough questions.