OSKAR EDER (11) spends every spare minute with the quirky residents of the ‘senior citizens’ paradise’, where his single father, head nurse BARTHEL EDER, is struggling with a severe lack of staff. When the chaos becomes life-threatening, Oskar invites his friend NOLA SEKANDOWSKI (15), an enthusiastic computer programmer, and her little robot squirrel to the retirement home so that the robot animal can help clean up. Everything works out well and Nola arranges for the home management to purchase the care taking robot DALIBERTOBERT from her mother, the inventor ANNABELLE SEKADOWSKI, and to hire her as a programmer. As Nola lacks tact and social sensitivity, Oskar helps her to understand the complicated needs of his older friends, who soon fall in love with the rhyming, rapping machine. The cheerful encounters between Oskar, Nola, the robot and the senior citizens end abruptly when the retirement home manager realizes that she has been given a toy instead of an efficient cost-cutting machine. She orders Nola to train the robots to be rational and efficient, if necessary, at the expense of the dignity and health of the elderly. Oskar is deeply outraged. He will not allow this to happen...