June 1945. Badly injured her face destroyed Auschwitz survivor Nelly returns to Berlin. Having barely recovered from facial surgery she sets out to find her husband Johnny. Nelly’s family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife too is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn’t recognise her but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his ‘late’ wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her own imposter. She wants to know if he loved her – and whether he betrayed her. She wants her old life back.
June 1945. Badly injured her face destroyed Auschwitz survivor Nelly returns to Berlin. Having barely recovered from facial surgery she sets out to find her husband Johnny. Nelly’s family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife too is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn’t recognise her but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his ‘late’ wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her own imposter. She wants to know if he loved her – and whether he betrayed her. She wants her old life back.
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