A woman is locked in a room, taking orders from a beam of light. Over time, however, she begins her emancipation.
Two men, father and son, are building a fence in a speechless routine. They suddenly come up against an obstacle: a stone lies in their path and cannot be moved. As they begin to dig out the stone, the way they have treated each other over the years begins to change, until the relationship threatens to break down. In the end, the fence lies fallow, but the two have found a common language again.
Bärbel Schmitz buys her husband a shirt for his birthday. When she discovers a call for help from Bangladesh in it, a story begins that will turn Bärbel and her family's regular, conventional life completely upside down.
