- A respected Polish doctor, knighted for his humanitarian but accused of war atrocities and collaborating with the Nazis, sues an American writer for libel.
- In 1945 Dr. Adam Kelno, a Polish anti-Communist, escapes from a Nazi death camp near the War's end. He becomes a naturalized British citizen and devotes himself to a pro bono medical clinic. His French nurse Angela falls in love with this dedicated physician and they marry. A Polish Communist agent accuses Kelno of participating in war crimes while in the concentration camp and petition the court to grant him extradition back to Poland to stand trial. However, when the key witness cannot identify Kelno as the man who castrated him, the charges are summarily dropped. The doctor becomes paranoid that the Communists will continue to persecute him, so he leaves the U.K. to take a job running a clinic for impoverished Third World Arabs in Kuwait. There, his dedication to his patients earns him a knighthood in 1959. Convinced that no one would come after him because of his hard-earned title, he returns to Britain to start private practice. The same year Kelno escaped, American writer Abe Cady is wounded flying for the RAF. He marries his English nurse and moves to Hollywood to live a lavish lifestyle where he squanders his personal integrity by writing conventional, vacuous film scripts and cheating on his long-suffering wife, Samantha. He has a prickly relationship with his elderly father, who correctly accuses him of deserting his Jewish heritage. When the elder Cady who has acted on his convictions and moved to Israel, is dying, Abe, supported by his new love. Lady Randolph, vows to write the story of the Holocaust. This all leads to a showdown between the two men with Kelno charging Cady with libel for accusing him of war crimes in collaboration with the Germans. The showdown between them will take place in the courtroom known as Queen's Bench VII.—duke1029@aol.com
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