For an orphaned childhood survivor of Dachau, Jonathan Winchell has done well for himself. Growing up under the care of a cousin in New York, he went on to become a professor of Holocaust literature at UCLA. Meanwhile his own memories of the camps remain resolutely buried.

Learning he has a heart condition, Jonathan decides it's time to face his past and returns to Germany to revisit the scene of the crime. But while he's pursuing the painful truth, a neo-Nazi group intent on covering up the atrocities has chosen Jonathan as the unwilling spokesman for their Holocaust-revisionist...