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Based on a popular novel titled ~Anne Baebi Jowaeger~, this is the second of a two-part drama that takes aim at crippling superstitions and local prejudices in 19th-century Switzerland. A backward, village mentality is keeping modern medicine in abeyance as a young couple, Jakobli (Peter Brogle) and Meyeli (Kathrin Schmid) turn their back on "newfangled" medicine when their baby gets sick. The result is that the infant dies and Jakobli's mother-in-law goes into a depression, retires into self-imposed isolation, and nearly destroys them as the farmwork is ignored. Meanwhile, a new country doctor (Peter Arens) is trying to open up the minds of the peasants to medicine as it should be practiced.