A good Jewish family is demolished by fascist power in Germany. The head of this family - Edgar Oppenheim is a well-known surgeon-ophthalmologist, and friendly and promising young people around him. The fascists initiate persecution against them. Oppenheim is put into prison, his son commits suicide, and Edgar’s brother hands his factory over to fascists on humiliating terms. When Oppenheim is out of prison, he leaves Germany together with his daughter, realizing that this merciless country is not his Motherland any longer. Source : www.mosfilm.ru
