Retired coffee house owner Franz is a real hypochondriac. When he overhears the doctor's prognosis during a visit to the doctor, everything is clear to Franz: the terminally ill patient can only mean himself. He has three weeks left to sort out the affairs of his life. So the old man sets out to finally make peace with his daughter Johanna. Because he doesn't know his son-in-law and has no idea about his daughter's private life anyway, he mistakes Johanna's boss for her husband...

Austrian version of the novel "12 Chairs". While on vacation with her grandfather in Vienna, Samantha learns that she's inherited something. But upon arriving in Carinthia, Grandpa and his granddaughter discover that the inheritance appears to consist of only 13 old chairs. Only after the auction do they learn that money is hidden in one of the chairs. Grandpa now tries every means possible to secretly acquire it.