On the night of January 31, 1945, in the town of Palmnicken in East Prussia (now the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia), Nazis shot on the seashore about 3,000 prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp, mostly women and teenage girls. The advancing Soviet troops reached the execution site just one day after the execution. Three main characters of the film – Martin Bergau who was a member of the Hitler Youth in February 1945; Gunter Nitsch, an American writer of German descent; and Simcha Koplowicz, a descendant of the surviving prisoner Sheva Koplowicz – are recalling this story before our eyes.

The story of the investigation, which in the late eighties was carried out by the relatives of the victims, former prisoners of the GULAG, and security officials who had to deal with the heavy legacy left by the Cheka and the NKVD. The location of the shooting range has long been a public secret. Through the efforts of caring people, the place where the burial of the victims took place was established, and books were published in memory of those killed at the Butovo training ground. The details of how the terrible conveyor belt of murders without trial or investigation was organized was revealed.