Since the death of her husband, Juliane leads a lonely and empty life. So she decides to return to her former profession as a librarian. But the only offer she can find is a job as librarian in a men’s prison. After she convinces the prison warden Maximilian and the prison psychologist that she can do the job, she meets more opposition from her daughter Karoline. Gradually, with an iron will, she manages to reopen the neglected library.