A historical drama depicting the story of Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski, a pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz.
A group of British soldiers, retreating from the Germans toward Dunkirk in WW2 are captured. A renowned British boxer among them is forced in the ring to fight an equally talented German boxer as they struggle to escape.
The son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
After capturing Kazimierz Piechowski at the Hungarian border, he is sent to Auschwitz where he is forced to move corpses from the gas chambers to the crematorium.