After the separation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, there are signs of agression towards the Jewish people beginning to appear in Czechoslovakia. The German occupation and the formation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the drastic discriminatory sanctions deepen even further. Jews are deprived of all of their civil rights, and, moreover, forced to wear a sign of their Jewish origin on their clothes - the yellow star. The Kaufmann family, like other Jewish families, is living in permanent fear. Their daughter, Hana, who is a doctor, is fired from a Prague clinic. Her only comfort in the unhappy times is the love of doctor Antonín Bureš, whom she finally marries. One day, the Kaufmanns are taken to the Terezín ghetto. Hana can stay, as she is in a mixed marriage. Her and Antonín's life is marked by the anxiety for their dear ones and fear of further repression. The merciless Nazi machinery finally separates them. Antonín, after the death of his father and his brother in a concentration camp, is arrested, and Hana has to go to Terezín, from where her family had already been taken east, to meet their death. Hana lives through terrible days and weeks in Terezín. Finally she lives to see the freedom come, and together with her husband, who also survived, returns ...
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Československý Státní Film