When the search for an answer leads to ever new questions... "Life Images - Role Models" is the title of a chapter in a new reading book that three experts are supposed to compile and publish. Observing, evaluating, and judging, they tackle a nearly unsolvable task. Three specialists in educational pedagogy come together in a Hamburg guesthouse in 1968 to discuss a new and forward-looking concept for a reading book, focusing on whether there can still be role models in the Federal Republic in light of the student and youth revolts. At the same time, all three are seeking answers to personal questions in their lives, making the quest for a contemporary, binding role model for youth in the late sixties, not least for the so-called experts, a gamble.