Gert promised Marlena a party with a real Christmas tree, but the mayor forgot his promise to bring one and the shop can't recollect his order, so they sold the last one. The shopkeeper boasts she can 'make one', but refuses to do so or help the mayor, so he converts a coat-rack on his own. Gert isn't amused, so the mayor steals the shop's own tree, but his contraption has a surprising fan.