About the business man Kurt Andreas Becher, who is taking the liberty to change a few details of his life history. In 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Becher arrives in Budapest in order to obtain material for the Waffen-SS. At the same time, he starts to gather private property by offering an insidious choice to the corporation's Jewish majority shareholder, Dr. Chorin: Either Chorin assigns the company to Becher "of his own free will" - thereby obtaining the permission to travel abroad - or he his family will end up in an extermination camp.—DEFA