As a child, VICTOR DESSAUER, a Jew born in Vienna in the 1930s, witnesses his grandparents being murdered by Nazi thugs and his parents and sister hauled off to Mauthausen Con - centration Camp. The SS officer in charge: the Commandant of Mauthausen, KURT GOGL. From this moment on, 8-year-old Victor is completely alone, left in the remote hiding place in the forest where his family was discovered by the SS. Somehow, the child will have to survive the rest of the war all by himself. Twenty years later, the social upheaval of the early 1960s has also reached Vienna, where Victor and his father PAUL – the only two survivors among the entire extended family – have a textile business. When Victor and his father get word that Kurt Gogl – who also killed Victor's mother and younger sister in Mauthausen – is living in the Salzkammergut region of Austria, where he works as a school headmaster and has never been brought to justice, Paul approaches the Nazi hunter SIMON WIESENTHAL and asks him to track Gogl down. In due course, Kurt Gogl is found and charged with crimes against humanity. However, seeing as Austria is still infested with former Nazis at this time in history, Gogl is acquitted. When all further legal attempts to make Gogl pay for his actions end in failure, Victor goes to see the former SS officer himself, hoping to persuade him to make a confession. But Gogl chases Victor away and threatens him with violent retribution if he ever comes near his house again.

Shortly after, Victor’s father passes away due to weakened health and the distress of the situation. At this point, Victor resolves to take the law into his own hands and keep constant track of Gogl. He does so in secret, keeping it even from his girlfriend ANNA and his best friend ARIE. But in a country where a large number of senior political and admin - istrative positions are still occupied by former Nazis – very few of whom have ever been held accountable for their actions – Victor's attempts to confront Gogl constantly fail. One day, as he is secretly following Gogl and his entourage on a hunting trip and has the opportunity to shoot him, Victor suddenly begins to doubt whether he is doing the right thing. He doesn't pull the trigger. But then he is discovered and just barely manages to escape before the furious men are able to kill him. From this moment on, Victor and those he holds dear are themselves hunted down by Gogl and the former Nazis who are still loyal to him. Victor and Anna are attacked and badly beaten. At this point, WERNER KOHLMEIER, an agent of the Mossad, approaches Victor and offers to get him out of the country safely, but Victor refuses to abandon his quest to obtain justice for his family. He comes up with a daring plan…putting Gogl in the same situation Victor himself experienced as a small child, that is, alone and abandoned in the forest, in a hole in the ground with no apparent chance of escape.