Mathias grew up in Germany. When the war hits and Hitler takes reign, he and his grandfather are torn from their home. As he grows up, he faces adversity, loss, humiliation, and even death itself. As every second of his new life is meet with a constant struggle to survive he finds himself stripped of everything but he refuses to be stripped of his humanity. Follow Mathias and his constant struggle through the next two years and his recollection of his past while being transported to different concentration camps and trying to survive this nightmare he now calls "life".