 Johann Neudorf has made his way into the Argentinian society as consultant for the regime. His son has just finished the military academy. Only his daughter Paula is otherwise. She is working as a teacher and sympathizes with the left wing underground. When Laura suddenly is caught by the police and disappears, Johann begins to investigate. Soon he is confronted with an other than his established view of society: denunciation, torture and murder. Then memories of his childhood in Czechoslovakia come up. Czechoslovakia 1939, the country is occupied by the Germans...