What happens when knowledge becomes inconvenient? When books are to be banned because they ‘don’t fit in’? When critical research is delegitimised, voices are discredited and information is deliberately withheld? The films in this collection follow people and initiatives who, in the midst of social conflicts, stand up for intellectual freedom – and thus for democracy in everyday life. They tell of press freedom and censorship, of investigative journalism, of creative forms of protest and of resistance. Of that moment when people decide: I will not remain silent. The focus is on the responsibility to maintain democratic dialogue even under mounting pressure.