A friend of Mussolini’s working as a war correspondent with the German army arrives at his new post in a Romanian provincial town in the throes of a life-threatening asthma attack. With unintended irony, officials recommend consultation with the local specialist, a certain Jewish doctor. The journalist’s search for the man becomes an increasingly absurd wild goose chase leading him through a maze of Third Reich bureaucracy to the heart of the final solution. Based on a true story.