Willi and Adelheid Busch have inherited a local newspaper from their father. But ever since the German-German border split the region, cutting off half of their former customer base, there hasn't been much to report in their now-provincial town and the paper has been struggling financially.

Willi needs to find a way to sell more papers to less people - and realizes that he can invent much more exciting news than anything real life might supply. As Willi's "investigative reporting" turns up everything from dangerous spies to local saints, the newspaper and the whole town find themselves unexpectedly in the national spotlight.