Captain Fred Paulsen eagerly heads to the sultanate of Oman, a home of the Arab dow-traders, whose sail ships essentially remain since the fourth century. Guest Thomas Müller and his wife hoped a romantic holiday would enable hem to get fertile, but his parents Dagmar and Herbert, who dream of grandchildren, booked the room next door as a surprise, which constantly sabotages their romance on board and on 'bedouin' excursion, her being a shameless meddler and he expecting help to cover up his cardiac-disastrous cigar-relapse. A brilliant geologist is eager to test his invention to cheaply explore desert land, surprised his ex is his counterpart in negotiations to sell it to an oil corporation, whose ruthless executive even hires local thugs to steal the results. A homewrecker, whose adulterous lover canceled his booking last minute, fearing his sick wife wouldn't survive divorce, turns suicidal, but her pathetic bottled message gets father and son Merbold, on whose retirement island it beached up, to board and preach the value of life.
—KGF Vissers