Judit, a young woman in her twenties, has been working as a filmmaker for years, but her aspirations remain unfulfilled. Frustrated, she decides to move back to her hometown, where the two worlds inevitably collide.

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.