During the regime of the Third Reich, a young Nazi officer rebels against the evil philosophy. Herbert Richter is put in charge of a prisoner labor camp by his uncle, the general, to keep him from harm's way during the ongoing war. Unbeknownst to his uncle, Herbert doesn't believe in harming people - any people. There, he gets to know the beautiful and pragmatic prisoner Marion Leibowitz when he takes her on as his assistant, and the two fall deeply...