The film builds to its powerful climax
on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary
pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental
competence as Landau's Max guides him
on an improbable journey.