 In the opening scene, cows are herded onto a cattle car, and the train begins its trip; in the next scene, former Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann and his young son watch from a window of their Buenos Aires home as the train passes. Thus the underlying theme of the movie is revealed: the Jewish Holocaust. This is a tense reenactment of the capture of Eichmann, posing as Ricardo Klement, by the Israeli Mossad in Argentina in 1960.