米利阿姆(Anouk Aimée 阿努克•艾梅 饰)参加一个奥斯维辛幸存者的聚会,但没过多久欢乐的气氛就转变成难以逃避的忧伤。米利阿姆曾错过一次拯救他人的机会,为此耿耿于怀。她踏上前往波兰的旅途,拜访熟悉或陌生的人们,回到曾遭受巨大磨难和痛苦的集中营遗址以及早已物是人非的故居。在这里,童年的点点滴滴一并涌现。 旅行中,米利阿姆邂逅了年轻的摄影师奥斯卡(August Diehl 奥古斯特•迪德 饰),两人一路同行,用回忆和照片再现出那段已渐渐为人们所遗忘的灰色过去,以及那永远也无法摆脱的孤独感……Myriam is a French Jew and a holocaust survivor. Sixty years after her imprisonment in Auschwitz she decides to do something daring. She returns there to finally confront her painful past. At Auschwitz she meets another person who is looking for answers-a young German photographer Oskar, whose grandfather was an SS officer.