Life awakens in spring. Everything is created new. When everything blossoms in full splendour in spring, rose grower Carole Biancalana leads us through her plantations near the 'perfume capital' Grasse. For fruit grower Jörg Geiger, the time of flowering is decisive for the yield of his apple and pear trees on the Swabian Alb. Severin Bühler and his team show the spectators how to manage difficult forest jobs in Switzerland by helicopter, while the researcher Paolo Molinari observes South Tyrol's brown bears awakening from hibernation. And Mirco Kaiser now sets out for maintenance work on an offshore platform in the middle of the Baltic Sea. "Spring Awakening" is the start of a new year. Every day the sun gains strength and awakens new life in humans and animals. Crab fisherman Claas Bruhns sets sail again, the first flight of the bees begins, in the Masuria the return of the storks is eagerly awaited, and in the Camargue Luc Vernhes opens the water gates to his salt pans ...