How do you live your life if you are born as the son of a Nazi murderer? What does it mean to meet relatives of your own father‘s victims? And how to face the past in a country where many domestic culprits remain unpunished. The elite Nazi, Gerhard Bast participated in the murder of partisans and civilians in several areas of Slovakia. The Austrian journalist and writer Martin Pollack is his biological son. In his book The Dead Man in the Bunker, he follows Bast‘s footsteps to Slovakia. Today, however, he returns here only through his translator, fellow writer and friend Michal Hvorecký. In the film, he sear- ches for several almost forgotten places of memory connected with Bast‘s crimes, as well as living witnesses to Bast‘s murders. Along the way, he asks himself an urgent question – what does the legacy of the Slovak National Uprising – by which Slovakia rejected fascist ideology and stood on the right side of history – mean today?
