Berlin, August 2049. Renowned researcher Maral Safadi and her wife, gynecologist Julia Kowalczyk, return with great fanfare to the Charité, where she had studied. Now director of the hospital's microbiology institute, Maral takes charge of a man infected by an unknown pathogen. Meanwhile, the Charité is besieged by demonstrators protesting against a new reform of the healthcare system imposed by Minister Thomas Nguyen, in which Maral was involved as an advisor. Seda, the researcher's mother, sides with the protesters.