On August 26, 1944, the counterintelligence officer Hans Georg Klamroth is executed for treason. Decades later, his youngest daughter sees images of her father in a television documentary about July 20, taken during the trial at the People's Court. A sight that Wibke Bruhns cannot shake off. Who was this man, whom she barely knew, this distant father who suddenly feels so close? The long search for his, and indeed her own, story takes her back into the past: The Klamroths are a respected upper-middle-class merchant family and resemble a Halberstadt counterpart to the Buddenbrooks. Countless photos, letters, and diaries serve as the foundation for a unique family epic.