Peter Weihs

Karl Hirnschall is in his thirties and is a member of a Viennese avant-garde theatre group in the early seventies. When he is finally fed up with acting for low fees, he goes back to his former life. He becomes the "right man" for a grocery firm whose products he sells with great success. The neo-salesman manages to acquire a furnished appartment for himself and his young girlfriend, Traude. When his income does not keep pace with his expenditures, Karl resorts to shady business deals.

Berlin, Allemagne, 1935. Le jour où Karl Weiss, un peintre juif, et Inga Helms, une chrétienne, se marient, tous deux et toute la famille Weiss sont pris dans le maelström du régime nazi, les tempêtes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et les horreurs de la Solution finale criminelle, l'Holocauste, la Shoah ; tandis qu'Erik Dorf, un avocat ambitieux, entreprend sa descente aux enfers aux mains du sinistre Reinhard Heydrich.