 The series is set in a large farmhouse near the North Sea with a station on the Hamburg U-Bahn.The main characters are seven children from three families living together in the house, and the series also features assorted animals, in particular the farm dog, Oskar, the farm cats, a tame rooster, Einstein, and a pony, Justus.It was a successor to "Neues vom Süderhof", with the same director, , and Ursula Hinrichs, the grandmother in the former series, playing an aunt.