June, 1945. Badly injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly (Nina Hoss) returns to Berlin. Having barely recovered from facial surgery, she sets out to find her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). Nelly’s family has been murdered in the holocaust – Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracked him down he doesn’t recognize her, but seeing a resemblance, Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his “late” wife in order to access … mehrher inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her own imposter. weniger