German soldier Hans Quangel is killed in action in 1940, leaving his parents Otto and Anna devastated. Otto, unable to bear the Nazi regime's responsibility for his son's death, begins creating handwritten cards denouncing the regime's abuses and lies, secretly distributing them throughout Berlin. As the cards pile up, a disillusioned Anna helps Otto, while a determined detective tracks them down, pressured by his SS superior to make an arrest.

Alone in Berlin
A grieving couple, haunted by the loss of their son in World War II, channel their pain into a mission of retribution by secretly disseminating subversive propaganda throughout Berlin.