The Uruguayan ambassador in The Hague saves 20 Jews' lives, but is accused of collaboration with the Nazis in 1945. Behind this shocking contrast lies a heartbreaking story about dilemmas and double lives. Who was Carlos Gurméndez?

Ambassador Gurmendez managed to escape with the Jewish refugees by train to Switzerland and then traveled through France and Spain to neutral Portugal.

What happened there in Portugal? How could Gurméndez go from one extreme to the other in just five years? And why did the Netherlands declare him persona non grata after the war? This film answers these questions.