The documentary narrates the local history of psychiatric care in the area of the Tyrol from 1830 to this day. It has its focus on the role of male and female nurses, a usually rather invisible profession in historic research and perception. Five chapters include e.g. one on the Nazi era killings of hundreds of psychiatric patients as well as one on the transformation of psychiatric care in Italy in the 1980s, always including reflections about the involvement of nurses in these developments.