 Dr. Alexander Beck is accused of being a war criminal and having been a Nazi collaborator in Dachau concentration camp. Beck has been living in England and is now retired from his medial practice. He is recognized by a camp survivor and is accused of being one Alexander Balinski who subsequently stole Beck s identity in order to escape prosecution at the time. Kavanagh has agreed to prosecute and is very sympathetic to the elderly camp survivors but is concerned at the inaccuracies of memory after fifty years. The case becomes more complex when one of the chief witnesses has a massive heart attack and another refuses to return to England for the trial.