An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant for stealing things.

There's rampage at a Berlin university. Many of the students don't manage to escape the building and barricade themselves in the classrooms and lecture halls. Their fates are connected, but they don't yet know it. Did they live their lives right, if it all ends today? Fear spreads - fear of the perpetrators and fear of the total silence in the building.