Simone Segre a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins lives in a city in the northeast of Italy A quiet life an elegant apartment and no connection with his past One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest Simone abandons him to his destiny Filled with guilt he ends up tracing the mans family Marica the eldest daughter Marcello a teenager plagued with racial hate and little Paolo The night will come when Marica knocks at Simones door and unknowingly asks for payback