After serving five years Willi soon learns that his new life is another kind of prison since no one trusts an ex-convict. His uphill struggle for a job and shattered hopes of a normal existence grind him down to utter despair.
The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.
The Habsburg Empire between the Reformation and the approaching Thirty Years' War: upheaval, awakening and change, which culminate in the political and human catastrophe of a cruel slaughter.
