Final film of Theresia Wider.
Jenny Schily plays a pretend trainee lawyer, the assistant to a defense lawyer defending the radical militant Andreas Klein, while being a militant herself. Her father Otto Schily worked as a defense lawyer, representing actual such militants and later RAF terrorists such as Gudrun Ensslin and Horst Mahler.
In the film, Rita Vogt, portrayed by Bibiana Beglau, is based on the real person Inge Viett, while Friederike Adebach, played by Jenny Schily, represents the real individual Susanne Albrecht. Both Viett and Albrecht were members of the militant group Red Army Faction.