Kurt Gerron was once a star, but now he is a prisoner in a concentration camp. The famous artist was sent straight from the filming pavilion to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he must demonstrate his talent for the last time - to make a film that would depict the humiliating existence of Jews in Hitler's Germany as an earthly paradise. Kurt Gerron faces a difficult choice - if he goes against his conscience, then, perhaps he will save both himself and his wife Olga, whom he loves more than life itself. In this brilliant, touching novel, Charles Lewinsky tells the tragic story of his hero, constantly balancing between success and despair, worship and persecution.