Rudi lives on petty crimes in his small world. He is sixty and he has spent most of his life on his own. He is feared and respected, he knows everything about this small world of his, but he doesn’t know that anything you leave behind can sometimes catch up, grab you and crush you. When he finds himself having to take care of his daughter Susanna, he is forced to come to terms with himself.
The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental state of inmates finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he's lost all control.