It is 1963. Young Eva Bruhns works as a Polish-German interpreter in Frankfurt. She lives with her parents, who run a restaurant: Deutsches Haus. Eva is about to become engaged to a wealthy heir to a mail order company when she is asked to interpret during a hearing: the first Auschwitz case against former SS officers. Eva's parents and her husband disapprove. Eva has never heard of Auschwitz, but something makes her ignore her doubts and accept the assignment. Only when Eva starts interpreting does she discover the extent of National Socialism's murders. And slowly she realizes that she has a personal connection to that place.