The suicide of the old Jew Salomon Tauber would have gone almost unnoticed if chance had not led the young Hamburg reporter Peter Miller to a yellowed diary. The meticulous entries raise in him the dreadful suspicion that the former camp commander Eduard Roschmann is still alive. The hunt for Roschmann becomes a life-and-death adventure. Miller gets caught up in the machinery of the powerful secret organization ODESSA, a group of former SS members. Under their orders and protection, Roschmann develops a remote control system for rockets that are meant to ultimately destroy Israel. But who is hiding behind the codenames Vulkan and Werwolf? How is ODESSA financed? What does the ominous black file contain? An exciting race begins...