An extremely gut-wrenching true story of a Holocaust survivor named Harry Haft. While you will bear witness to the horror of the inner-workings and almost casual way a Nazi SS Officer sort of... just strikes up a "partnership" with one of the prisoners in the concentration camp he was in charge of (that prisoner being Mr. Haft himself), that's only part of the film. The bulk of it deals with the aftermath of it all. Mr. Haft's struggle to move on from his trauma and try and live a normal life. It is difficult, it is heart-breaking, it is hard to watch. But in my opinion it is ultimately triumphant. He lived. He survived. We get to watch a movie about him and remember him, while that Nazi will be forgotten.
It's refreshing to see more Holocaust films from the perspectives of the people who were persecuted and not camp liberators or people who helped them. I love The Book Thief and Schindler's List as much as anyone, those stories absolutely need to be told, but there is definitely an uneven ratio in that regard. Everyone does an incredible job acting, but I really want to give Ben Foster his due. The man deserves an Oscar. The film itself is a bit slow, but it's worth it in my opinion. Overall, it's a story worth knowing.