Stuttgart, 1932. Sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz, the only son of a Jewish doctor, forms an intense, idealized friendship with Konradin, a new classmate from an illustrious aristocratic Protestant family. But as Hitler’s rise poisons their peaceful town, Hans’s parents send him to America to escape the persecution closing in. Years later, the past returns to him in tragic fashion. A short, unforgettable masterpiece on friendship, betrayal and memory.