When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.
A blind woman develops an unexpected friendship with an ex-con, not realising that he's stuck on home detention - a sitting duck with a target on his back. As their bond deepens, she finds herself entangled in his past, and hiding in plai