El comandante de Auschwitz Rudolf Höss y su esposa Hedwig se esfuerzan en construir una vida de ensueño para su familia en una casa con jardín cerca del campo.
Noviembre de 1944. En la isla inundada de Walcheren, Zelanda, miles de soldados aliados luchan contra el ejército alemán. Tres vidas jóvenes están inextricablemente conectadas. Un niño holandés que lucha por los alemanes, un piloto de planeador inglés y una niña de Zelanda conectada a la resistencia contra su voluntad, se ven obligados a tomar decisiones cruciales que afectan tanto su propia libertad como la libertad de los demás.
He is considered to be one of the greatest German film stars, Hans Albers, known as "Der blonde Hans", a man made for the cinema. He was an actor, singer, idol of the Germans - and darling of the Nazis. Nevertheless, he could not protect his great love, the Jewess Hansi Burg. In 1938 she had to flee to London from anti-Semitism in Germany. But Albers himself stayed in Germany and continued to film, driven by a desire for a career and the call of money. In 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War, they meet again: Hansi Burg returns to the land of the murderers of her parents in the uniform of the British Army and visits Hans Albers in his villa on Lake Starnberg. He lives there with another woman. The rival has to go, then there is a tense debate. For a day and a night, the blonde Hans has to face uncomfortable questions and even more uncomfortable truths.
After three years at boarding school, Hanna is returning home to her little village to help her father's butcher’s shop during her break. Soon she learns that she is not welcome in the village. Everyone remembers the horrific news story about her mother’s death which was followed by the discovery of three dead men in the marsh. Superstition rules the village and everyone believes her mother was a witch that lured the men into the marsh directly to their death. While struggling to make friends, she meets extroverted city girl Eva. Thinking she has finally found a friend, Hanna’s confidence, and with that her "power", starts to grow, while scary accidents begin to happen around her.
La guerra no acaba cuando se firma la paz. Cuando Alemania se rindió en 1945, en la costa occidental danesa comenzó otra dura batalla: la de los jóvenes soldados alemanes que fueron obligados a retirar miles de minas plantadas en la arena por el ejército nazi. Zandvliet muestra el maltrato infligido a esos prisioneros, un oscuro episodio de posguerra poco conocido.
Como todo tipo duro, Ernst Blessing (Prochnow) ,tiene una vida como juez manteniendo los prejuicios raciales y resoluciones. Apenas retirado, se entera de la muerte accidental de su hija Christine. Cuando ella se casó hace 16 años perdieron el contacto... Ahora tiene dos nietos ante él, uno de ocho años y otro de 15 años de edad. Debe asumir la responsabilidad de cuidarlos al menos hasta que su padre sea dado de alta...
