On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.
The story of a Jewish man, escaped from Berlin in the beginning of World War II, now an owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. The city is a battlefield between local Germans and the resistance. The film shows how war destroys basic human relationships forever.