Based loosely on Ben-Hur - two childhood friends are suddenly brought together again on the opposing sides of the Nazi regime of WWII. One,a Jew went on to become a doctor, the other joined the Hitler youth and is the Commandant of a concentration camp, now ordering his former friend to perform fatal experiments on his own people - The Jews. The doctors only solace from this inner turmoil is in music - which the commandant finally forbids in an attempt to gain final control of the doctors resistance.