The film is based on real events. Standartenführer Fleischmann faces a crucial task. To solve it, he needs a poet who is on death row in a Berlin prison. As the film progresses, an unexpected connection between the "death house" in Berlin and post-war Nuremberg is revealed. For the first time, viewers are treated to a unique report from beneath the scaffold at Nuremberg. For the first time, the execution scene of major war criminals is recreated in cinema.