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Ten years after the fall of the Nazis, Peter, a young German boy, learns the secret of his past: the people he thought were his parents actually rescued him from a train bound for the Dachau concentration camp. Peter's resultant struggles with his identity are well integrated with an evolving perspective on his country's shameful history.