Just like her grandmother Viviana Winkelmann, Henrike fights for women’s rights: to a selfdetermined life and to be allowed to study medicine. Her desire to heal people is so strong that she secretly works as a reserve attendant at the Julius Infirmary lunatic asylum, which these days has been turned upside down by Professor Röntgen’s discovery of “magic beams”. Her dream is to sooth the suffering of the mentally ill as a psychiatrist and to study under the renowned Professor Rieger at the infirmary. But when Henrike falls in love with a French student of medicine, her secrets come to light. Shortly after, there is a tuberculosis epidemic in Würzburg and suddenly it is a matter of life and death for Henrike. Her dream of studying medicine and of women being allowed to study moves further away.
