Germany, 1971: Erika (Anna Schudt) is actually completely overwhelmed by her work in the butchery of husband Kurt (Christian Erdmann), the education of three common children and additional obligations, which brings the village life, as her doctor also revealed that she is pregnant again. Another baby is the last thing she needs now, and so she decides to drive to her sister Charlotte (Alwara Höfels) to Cologne and let the baby abortively secretly abort. Since there are complications during the surgery and Erika can only be rescued, but her husband still learns from the matter. It comes to a huge dispute, in which another topic is the future of daughter Ulrike (Lene Oderich). Without further ado Erika then packs her things and moves with her children to Charlotte. But at a time when legislation inevitably makes her dependent on her husband, she is denied a self-determined new beginning. Erika decides to do something to change that ..

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Suddenly go to school again, who has not already awoken from this nightmare? For the teacher Fabian Sorge from Cologne it becomes reality. Shortly before his appointment as a tenured German civil servant, it comes out that he falsified his high school diploma as a young man. In times of a lack of teachers, the school board gets involved in a deal: He gets his job back if he completes his high school diploma within one year. In this way, the suspended teacher not only gets to know the strange world of adult education, but also the needs of his classmates, who want to graduate from their social seclusion. But a property shark threatens to destroy their last chance.