Born into a Polish and a deeply anti-Semitic father, Sophie has lived the unspeakable in Auschwitz. Revenue from this hell, she saw a strong and destructive relationship with Nathan, a Jew whose spirit borders on genius and madness. But probably it was you need the violence of man to atone for what she is sure to be his fault: he survived thanks to compromises with the "boss" of the camp, the commander Hoss and have made this famous selection ..... to discover. Stingo, a native writer racist South, is the witness of these outsized characters.