[2] Sonja Knecht (Melanie Winiger) was sentenced to six years in prison for the alleged murder of her husband.

She wants to see her son, watching him undetected in the schoolyard and learns from his mouth "my mum is dead" as the eight-year-old boy was teased by other school children because his prison mother.

The further contact is initially prohibited: Tim lives with her in-law parents Armin and Julia which Sonja has entrusted her then two-year-old son.

To obtain the legal custody of her son, Sonja contacts Stefan, the only witness of the murder night and asks him to finally admit the truth.

First aired at the 12e Cinéma Tout Écran – Festival international du cinéma et de télévision, Competition in Genève on 30 October 2006, Sonjas Rückkehr was presented on occasion of the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival on 22 January 2007.