In the spring of 1945, with the end of the Second World War in sight, a German officer orders the reprisal shooting of eight woman in a small alpine village near lake como. Nearly fifty years later, in a suburb of sydney...In the spring of 1945, with the end of the Second World War in sight, a German officer orders the reprisal shooting of eight woman in a small alpine village near lake como. Nearly fifty years later, in a suburb of sydney, the daughter of one of the victims discovers her mother's executioner quietly living under an assumed name a few streets away.