A civilized Jewish scholar and his wayward daughter are confronted during the chaotic war years with impossible choices - and with that, increasingly opposed to each other. Both struggle for the rest of their lives with the consequences of those choices.
From no other country in Western Europe during the years 1940-1945 so many Jews were deported as from the Netherlands. How could this happen? How come the Dutch authorities and even the members of the Jewish Council were so cooperative regarding the deportations, and how did the German occupying forces get the Dutch authorities and the Dutch Jews to be that cooperative?
