The initially carefree, dreamlike holiday trip to the Turkish Riviera ends dramatically for Marco W. (Vladimir Burlakov) and his parents Martina (Veronica Ferres) and Ralf (Herbert Knaup). Marco is arrested on the last day of his holiday and has to spend eight months in Turkish prison. It is 247 gruelling days under inhumane conditions: crammed into a small cell with 30 foreign, partly drug-addicted, adult prisoners. He is treated like a serious criminal. When Marco is finally able to leave the prison and return to Germany, months full of fears, hopes, despair, disappointments and defeats come to an end for him and his family...