The seventies are coming to an end, and political tension prevails in all parts of the world. International crises, terrorist attacks, and conflicts characterize this era, which looks pessimistically toward the new decade. In the prison in Salinenmoor, unique dramas unfold. An inmate hopes for a breakthrough as a writer, but his manuscript attracts more interest from organized crime than from publishers. A prison guard who wants to help him publish it suddenly finds himself caught in a spiral of betrayal and violence, where there can only be losers in the end.