Lodzi Ashstein lives with his wife and parents when the Nazis come and take him away to Treblinka. Lodzi learns how to make himself of value to his captors in order to survive the extermination camp. The abusive German officer Janich Heiss takes control of the young man's every waking moment and brands his mind with images he will carry with him forever. In Chicago, attorney Thaddeus Murfee, is asked to represent the survivor seventy years after World War II. By now, Lodzi has taken the law into his own hands when he believes justice has failed.