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Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.

Eckart takes up his new job in community service: a workshop for the disabled. Ulrike works there; she's about his age, pretty, vibrant of personality--and mentally disabled. She is in love with Mr. Porzig, the macho 45-year-old head of the workshop's metal department. To keep Ulrike from incessantly running to Porzig, her foot is tied to her chair, and the chair to the table, with a scarf. Eckart's first step of action: he unties Ulrike, liberating her. A love story unfolds, from the turbulent, even explosive advances over the finally-reached, comforting intimacy, to the catastrophic turn. In summary, a totally normal love story. Normal!? There is no "normal".