Maier's father works in psychiatry. Money is always tight. But little Sepp has great joy for life, coupled with a sense of humor that will help him navigate many things in life more easily than, for example, Müller. And he has a father who does everything for him; who even puts his own job at risk and ultimately loses it to fulfill Sepp's wish. From then on, the family struggles for four years to make ends meet.
