Is it even possible to forgive the unforgivable? In 1962, Auschwitz survivors and their former warden meet at a chess tournament... SS Obersturmführer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz straight from fighting on the Russian front, where he was severely wounded. Unfit for further active service, his first administrative task is to improve the sagging morale among the German officers in the camp. He organizes the establishment of a chess club, which is popular with the team thanks to the small bets on the results of individual games. However, when Meissner learns that even prisoners play chess among themselves, rumors about the supposedly invincible Jewish watchmaker Clément catch his attention... In 1962, Clément meets Meissner at a chess tournament. In Auschwitz, Clément was forced to play against the Nazi guards: if he won, he was allowed to save the life of one of his fellow prisoners... If he lost, he would lose his own. Meissner, now a priest with a soft, pleading voice, was the SS officer in Auschwitz who ordered Clément to play so that the Germans could assert their superiority against the supposedly invincible Jew. The boldly conceived story reopens the themes of survivor's guilt as well as accomplice's guilt and the possibility of understanding, reconciliation and forgiveness.