In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
Saul Ausländer
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
Feigenbaum
Soldier
Eli Biederman
Landesman
SS Officer
SS Doctor
Ella
Abraham
Oberscharführer Busch
Schlojme
Saul's Son