The 21-year-old Alice (Nina Gummich) finds her way to journalism and becomes politically active. In the early 60s, she goes to Paris as an au pair. Through a friend and contact with the French women's movement, Alice is confronted with the life-threatening consequences of abortion laws. Back in Germany, she takes action against the abortion ban in §218 and the way abortions are handled, which is also kept secret in this country. She initiates a large campaign of 374 women who confess to having had abortions and makes history. But her activism comes at a high price. Alice's reputation as a journalist is in jeopardy, as is her relationship with Bruno (Thomas Guené), with whom she lives in Paris. The public television battle with Esther Vilar (Katharina Schüttler), an avowed anti-feminist, then makes Alice suddenly famous and establishes her reputation as a polarizing, fearless woman. From then on, criticism and defamation did not go unnoticed. The women's movement also discussed her controversially. But Alice continued undeterred, celebrating success as a bestselling feminist author and eventually founding the magazine "Emma.
—Christian_Wolfgang_Barth