For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past.
Trudy\'s sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II