 Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal (Landau) based on his 1962 prosecution of the head (Jonathan Philips) of a Polish factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able to take him to justice, he must find witnesses who can help him. This leads him to Max Rosenberg (Treat Williams), a still tormented individual who lost his wife, Helen (Alice Krige), in the camps. Initially Max refuses to cooperate, but gradually his story unfolds beginning before the Holocaust.