After the death of her father, who was a World War II United States Army surgeon, Leila Levinson discovered a concealed box of shocking photos he had taken of a Nazi slave-labor camp he had liberated. She learns that he suffered a breakdown after treating camp survivors. Searching for answers to her father's grief she sought out, and interviewed, dozens of World War II veterans who also liberated concentration camps. What she found is that the unimaginable horrors they witnessed still affected their daily lives.