1978年，一个左派革命组织“GAR”的成员闯入苏黎世附近的一家瑞士银行。他们拍摄下了整个行动过程，以证明银行的金融体系和南美独裁者之间的勾结。 30年之后，被认为已经丢失的这盘录影带，再次浮出水面……

In a small Swiss village in 1942, a cabal of Nazi sympathizers select a Jewish scapegoat (played by Bruno Ganz) to kill, and an 8-year-old witness grows into a 70-year-old writer whose life was changed forever by what he saw.