Anna has spent a year in a women's shelter after her husband tried to kill her and threatened their children. Reporter Kamilla Jarzina uses her case, and others, to examine domestic violence in Germany, where official statistics cite a partner or ex-partner assaulting a woman on average every four minutes. The film interviews Cloud, forced into marriage with a violent man and now writing a book about the experience, and Michael, a man who admits to beating his wife repeatedly, giving the film a rare perpetrator's-eye view alongside the survivors' accounts. It touches on the Gisèle Pelicot case as a wider reference point, then turns to policy: a shortage of shelter beds nationwide, slow-moving legal proceedings, and what lawmakers say needs to change. Shelter staff describe the shame that keeps women silent and the effect on children who witness the abuse. Anna's final scenes show her preparing to start over, framed as one outcome among many the film insists are far from guaranteed.