He was Switzerland's most famous criminal at the time: filming of the story of the breakout kingpin Walter Stürm. In her fight against the backward legal system of the 1980s, the idealistic lawyer Barbara Hug finds an unexpected ally in the egotistical criminal Walter Stürm. Hug wants to use Stürm's popularity as the king of escapees for her goal of reforming the Swiss penal system. But the less Walter Stürm bows to her logic, the more she falls for the fascination of his irrepressible will for freedom. Stürm becomes the rock on whose resistance Hug must grow.