Fox in a Hole

Forty-year-old Hannes Fuchs is an ambitious middle-school teacher. He starts a new job as a teacher in a prison school. His main aspiration is to help the students. Fuchs is a deeply hurt man, hoping to redeem his past mistakes by choosing this, the most challenging of schools, as his workplace. There, he is forced to confront his biggest fear. He will rediscover his own buried creativity and lust for life, reminding him why he became a teacher in the first place. A major role in this process will be played by withdrawn Muslim inmate Samira. A touching story about a prison school for minors, told from the point of view of the newly arrived teacher who is well outside his comfort zone. The film, inspired by a teacher from Vienna, examines how the Austrian penal system treats minors.