Self-made businessman Anselm Rossberg (90) and his devoted daughter Maria (60) are stunned when Katharina (25, false name of Lena) stages car trouble as an excuse to intrude their stately rural home. Hearing Maria still denies the recurring charges, never leading to conviction, that Eastern front wound-disabled SS veteran Anselm was actively compromised in Auschwitz, while he maintains to have been a logistic nobody, Lena holds them at gun-point, hysterically demanding a confession for the death of her Jewish grandmother in the concentration camp. After clever denials, the Rossbergs prevail in an ensuing fight for the gun, which is wrestled from Lena , and Anselm turns the tables, demanding recognition of his apparent innocence and the unjust sufferance of his media-vilified and dumbos-beleaguered family, especially Maria who sacrificed her own life to look after him, now mildly crippled. Anselm himself is surprised to learn a family secret, unaware it shocks Maria, who overhears him and Lena, leading to more drama.
—KGF Vissers