It is August 1944 and the gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the third reich. When joseph engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a jew, adopted by christian p...It is August 1944 and the gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the third reich. When joseph engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a jew, adopted by christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral switzerland.