Because she was lovesick, the then seventeen-year-old farmer's daughter Maria Wiesböck from Samerberg packed her rucksack in 1941, left her father's farm and climbed to the Oberkaser-Alm in the Chiemgau Alps. There she took care of the cattle as a dairymaid and since then never returned to the valley, not even in the hard winters.
The alpine pasture became her purpose in life. She lived simply and healthily in harmony with nature. Now, at the end of this long life, she realizes that the familiar has disappeared more and more. Modern life has also long since taken hold on the alpine pasture, and some of it threatens nature.