Plot

The tragic love of a Jewish girl and a Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.

Stationed in a remote, quiet Bulgarian village in 1943, sensitive artist and Wehrmacht officer Walter is pleased to be away from the horrors of the battlefield. With his brigade channelling entire populations of captured Greek Jews to the hellish concentration camp, Auschwitz, Walter sees his world turn upside-down when young Grecian prisoner Ruth summons up the courage and turns to him for help with a pregnant woman. Against the backdrop of a dangerously volatile situation, little by little, conflicting emotions take over the unlikely couple, as Walter falls for Ruth. Can there be a future for the doomed lovers?—Nick Riganas

A detachment of Nazi soldiers escorting Greek Jews to the Auschwitz death camp stops at a small Bulgarian town in 1943. Walter, the non-commissioned officer from the Nazi army, a skeptical and disillusioned intellectual, falls most unexpectedly (even for himself) in love with Ruth, a Jewish girl. This new feeling gradually makes him stop and reflect on the events taking place around him and he comes face-to-face with the inhuman nature of fascism. He is tortured by anxious thought about the part he is called to play in the eternal struggle between evil and good. Helped by Bulgarian resistance fighters, Walter organizes Ruth's escape. When the time arrives he realizes that he has been deceived about the exact departure hour of the prisoners.—Georgi Djugerov <georgidjul1943@gmail.com>