A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial recontruction surg...
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial recontruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Nelly Lenz, a Jewish singer, has survived the Nazi concentration camps but at what cost? She is disfigured and has had to undergo facial surgery. Back in what is left of Berlin, accompanied by her faithful friend Lene, she has only one thing in mind, finding Johnny, her musician husband in the ruin of the city. She wants to know if he still loves her and if he has betrayed her, as Lene claims he has. She does meet him but Johnny does not recognize her. Wore, he asks her to imperonate... Nelly, with a view to grabbing her inheritance
