Buenos Aires in the mid-fifties: Silvia, the daughter of Jewish death camp sur-vivor Lothar Herman, falls in love with Nick, of all people, the son of Adolf Eichmann, the principal figure in regard to the mass deportation of European Jews to the extermination camps. She is completely unaware of Nick's father's past. Adolf Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 and it was there that he de-posed his perception of the Holocaust to the Dutch journalist and SS man Wil-lem Sassen. Lothar Herman recognises the criminal in Nick's father and in-forms Fritz Bauer, the Attorney General of Hesse, Germany, of Eichmann's whereabouts. Bauer, a Nazi hunter and concentration camp escapee himself, confides in the Israeli Secret Service, Mossad. In doing so, Eichmann's fate is sealed.

The film, shot on location in Germany, Argentina, Israel and the USA, densely interlaced with historical graphic material, reports from affected individuals and contemporary witnesses, in addition to documental footage, focuses on the almost unbelievable and in part unknown story of the discovery and seizure of the organiser of the mass deportation of European Jews. Not least due to the high-calibre cast of characters in the re-enacted scenes, this dramatised documentary is an absorbing interpretation of one of the most appalling chap-ters of recent German history.

The 90-minute documentary tells of one of the darkest chapters of WW1: the genocide perpetrated against Armenians, whereby 1.5 million people in the former Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) were murdered between 1915 and 1918. This genocide, the 95th anniversary of which falls on the 24th of April, 2010, was termed the first systematically executed genocide of the 20th cen-tury by Raphael Lemkin, the initiator of the Anti-Genocide Convention, which was adopted by the UN in 1948. However, he has been repudiated to this day by those responsible and their descendants, in addition to being widely suppressed by the rest of the world.

In Hamburg, twenty children, all young survivors of concentration camp Ber-gen-Belsen, find a temporary home in the villa belonging to Warburg, a Jewish banker. They are given lessons and taken care of by three young women, but the locals and the British authorities regard the "children of Blankenese" with suspicion. Entangled within a mesh consisting of first kisses, blatant anti-Semitism and a collective dream of Israel, the children find their way back to normal life. In May 1946, the first few of them emigrate to Israel …

Down below, seen from the dark back yard of their council flats, the walls of the densely arranged blocks reduce the sky to one small square: as far as Joschi, 13 and Niko, 14 are concerned, the sky has four corners. The screen at the neighbourhood cinema, where the boys are secretly following the adventures of Count Karpatovicz, the vampire, also has four corners. Niko's sister, Tatjana, has her hopes set on the four corners of the bo-xing ring in which she fights, in order to one day escape from the drea-riness of the rundown blocks of flats. The two boys' friendship is put to a stiff test when Niko's pretty Jessica begins to make eyes for Joschi …

Frank Lehmann still lives with his parents in Neue Vahr, a dreary new housing estate in Bremen, close to the Autobahn. It is 1980 and Frank is conscripted to the German army. This, despite the assurances of his friends, that he is "not the right type". But Frank had simply forgotten to register his objection to na-tional service. He is not sure why himself. After just one week in the army, he arrives home only to discover that his father has taken over his room. His schoolmate Martin saves the day, as he is just about to move into a commune in Bremen's alternative amusement district, Ostertor, with a couple of friends from the left scene. Spontaneously, Frank rents the as yet unoccupied access room. During the course of the story, Frank wanders between two worlds: be-tween a left-oriented chaos commune that preaches proletarian world revolution, and the German Army, with its strange rules, its demands for uncondi-tional obedience and constant standing at attention. His motto is: "Just don’t stick out in the crowd". But he is about as successful in this as he is in his in-tention not to fall in love. Of all people, he falls for Sibille, the love of his best friend Martin.