The documentary tells the story of the two lives of Rudolf Höß and Sophie Stippel, who take different paths in their search for inner stability - with far-reaching consequences. Both knew each other from their youth in Mannheim and met again in 1942 during the Nazi regime in the Auschwitz concentration camp, on opposing sides: Sophie Stippel is imprisoned as a Jehovah's Witness, Rudolf Höss is the commandant of this death factory.