The men on the watchtowers of the Stadelheim prison in Munich are on the alert. City traffic can be heard in the distance. The entrance areas of the large area are covered. Gray facades made of aggregate concrete, with conspicuously large white numbers on them. Jagged barbed wire limits the horizon. Police sirens sound in the distance. The prison is considered escape-proof. SEK men occupy the long hallway to the north building. tumult in the aisles. The prisoner Nic Schuster holds a screwdriver to the throat of his fellow prisoner Charly Bause. He demands that prison director Josef Beringer be able to speak to Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr. After all, they put him in prison years ago. Batic and Leitmayr race up. You have a largely free hand. Behringer remains level-headed.
JVA official Marie Hoflehner and her colleagues Beckmann and Reisig act in a proven routine. But slowly it becomes clear that the previously unthinkable could happen - an outbreak: Hassan Adub, 29, half Algerian, half French, is on the run. The man is walking around somewhere in Munich. With what goal? In addition, there is a new terrible discovery: Nic Schuster is dead - died of drugs. From now on, panic reigns. In a forest area, Hassan Adub can change prison clothing. His escape is apparently meticulously prepared. Chief Inspector Leitmayr moves into an improvised office in prison. He questions all sorts of witnesses, including Igor, the Russian, and Han Troung, the clever Vietnamese, the latter of course accompanied by his lawyer. The yield of the statements proves to be poor.
At the same time, Ivo Batic is investigating Hassan Adub's old acquaintances in the Munich train station district. Günni, Tom-Tom and Denis supplied half of Maxvorstadt with drugs three years ago. Hassan was convicted and was imprisoned – as the only one. #What no one knows is that Marie Hoflehner, the always correct JVA employee, risked her existence to enable prisoner Hassan to achieve his dream of a free life in his homeland of Algeria. But Hassan, happy in freedom, pursues his own goals with great concentration and determination. Marie's love is put to the test.