In the summer of 1933, Rudolf Brazda and his boyfriend openly display their love for one another. They walk hand in hand through the small Thuringian town of Meuselwitz and kiss in full view of everyone—despite the bans and threats of punishment. Two years later, the son of Czech immigrants is arrested for the first time and sentenced to prison. After serving his sentence, he goes to Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. In 1942, he is imprisoned there again and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. As a homosexual, he is initially sent to the penal battalion. But fellow prisoners secure him lighter work, which saves his life. After the war, he lives in Alsace and experiences his belated rehabilitation in his old age.
