Eleven survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary recollect their childhood experiences during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution. Includes photographs of the narrators.
In post-World War II Budapest, a young girl and her family struggle against the oppressive Hungarian Worker's Party policies and try to find a way to a better life.
Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.
Michael, a concentration camp survivor, returns to the town of his birth in Hungary to find and confront those people who stood by and never interfered when the Nazis deported the Jews, and finds himself arrested and jailed as a foreign agent.
When the Nazis invade Hungary, Susan and her sister are sent to a convent in order to protect them from persecution, where they try to adapt to the rules and rituals of a new religion and worry they will be found.