Would you entrust a very powerful thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you?Poland, 1938. Regardless of threats of alienation from his Christian circle of relatives, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful… and short-lived.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. And not using a circle of relatives to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing in every single place the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto.
Faced with their new reality, Rachel knows the only way to save her daughter is to smuggle her to her Christian sister-in-law, Irena, outdoor the ghetto. Irena is willing to risk her life just to save a single Jewish baby – but will her courage be enough?
