Helga Schneider's narrative is the dramatic story of a daughter who never felt maternal love. She became "orphaned" at the age of four when her mother abandoned her husband and children to serve as a guard in the Nazi extermination camps.

Fifty years later, Helga allows the cry of despair to resonate. On a rainy dawn in October 1998, when she is visited in a nursing home, she will hear from the very witness of Nazi atrocities, in exchange for calling her mutti, mother.

"Let me go, mother," will be the phrase she says as she turns her back, pleading for redemption...