A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices a face, of another woman, which brings recollections from the past. She confesses to her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war and that the woman had been an inmate, but perhaps her recollections have become confused with time. A study of guilt and retribution and the last film of talented Polish director Andrzej Munk who was tragically killed during the making of ‘Pasazerka'. It picked up Best Film at the Venice Film Festival and won the Special Award at Cannes.