Why did the German Church embrace Hitler and the Nazi Party? What was a good German, a deeply religious and pacifist man to do about it. Dietrich Bonhoeffer openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their time of need and eventually joined a plot to kill Hitler. The story of his life is interwoven with interviews of friends, family and students of Bonhoeffer, with historians and theologians and the words of Bonhoeffer himself, read by Klaus Maria Brandauer.