Twenty years after WWII, when a journalist identifies a local school teacher as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants to take notice. But a young prosecutor takes on the case and, during his research, realizes that while some Germans claim that they have never heard the expression “Auschwitz,” others are trying to forget about it. As the resolute prosecutor persists, he finds himself struggling with an overload of information and stumbling into a maze of guilt and lies, in which he nearly becomes lost.