Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.

Ema and Death's-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one's own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Simon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child's fantasy.