1946: The war is over — but not for them.
Two men face each other across the kitchen table of a lodge deep in the woods of southern Austria — one has a gun on the other. One is a fugitive Nazi. The other has come to bring him to justice.
Between them lies a gun — and the ghosts of a war that refuses to die. While the one with the gun decides whether or not to kill his captive, they tell each other their war stories.
And so, we journey across a vast and epic landscape of conflict.
The Story
…from the 1941 blitz that tore the heart out of a British city… through the fury and misery of the battle for Monte Cassino in 1944… the Eastern Front of 1943 during the savage struggle between Hitler’s legions and Stalin’s troops… mind games in occupied Prague… Berlin reeling under Allied bomber raids… a death march from Hungary into Austria in 1945… and into the early years of the Cold War, in which former allies view each other with suspicion and begin a new deadly dance.
Universal truths about the human condition are examined in an epic historical thriller of conscience and survival across a vast canvas — where the line between hero and villain blurs in the ashes of war, and there are twists and turns right up to the very end.
Hearts and souls are plunged into the fire and fury of a struggle between good and evil. The Second World War is over — but the pursuit of the guilty has only just begun.