Multi award-winning drama about a man who takes a stand against the Nazis.

Amsterdam, summer 1942.

Walter Süskind has found a job with the Jewish Council, which offers him and his family protection from deportation to Germany. One night, Walter witnesses the arrest of a Jewish family. The couple's children Roosje and Simon manage to escape, but how will they survive in the occupied city?

It is Süskind's task to arrange for the Jewish detainees to be sent to work in Germany. However, when he discovers the truth that it is the death camps waiting for his fellow Jews, he decides to double-cross the Germans.

The lives of Walter, his wife Hanna and child are now endangered when the SS officer begins to suspect that Walter is not the trustworthy manager he seems to be.