A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
A man, disabled since an accident at the age of 12 and disregarded as an outsider in the village, fails in his attempt to find a place in the community by marrying a wealthy farmer's daughter.
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72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thomas tells her one day that Franz Laub, another one of his clients, has his birthday, she becomes suspicious: that was also her half-brother's name and day of birth - only that he died in WW2...
