1937, a small village in Sudetenland. The Saw Mill owner Habermann is the biggest employer in his village. He employs Germans and Czechs alike and is deeply attached to the country where both nationalities lived for centuries. He becomes married to Jana, a young and beautiful Czech woman, who is half Jewish. Although Habermann is not interested in politics or ideology, he and his family will be steamrolled by the insanity of World War II…