Two child­hood friends are reunit­ed at a Jew­ish set­tle­ment in Czecho­slo­va­kia, and the camp promised as a safe place to wait out the war. Han­nah and Hilde were friends long ago, but when fate brings them back togeth­er at There­sien­stadt, they are adver­saries. At this so-called mod­el ghet­to, the Nazis plan to make a pro­pa­gan­da film to con­vince the world that the Jew­ish peo­ple are liv­ing well in Nazi-run camps. But Han­nah and her fel­low pris­on­ers have oth­er ideas. The young resis­tance mem­bers vow to dis­rupt the film­ing and derail the increas­ing­ly fre­quent depor­ta­tions to death camps in the east. Mean­while, Hannah’s old friend Hilde is a true believ­er in the Nazi cause, despite an out­look that looks like defeat. She can’t stop the Allied bomb­ings, how­ev­er, she can help the par­ty cre­ate a doc­u­men­tary that will renew con­fi­dence in Hitler’s plans for Jew­ish con­tain­ment. When the film­ing of Hitler Gives a City to the Jews faces pro­duc­tion prob­lems, Hilde finds her­self in a posi­tion to final­ly make a name for herself.