Bloodline

Gerhardt Klinsmann a German guard stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp anguishes over the man he has become. He despises the camp and his job and responding to an attack of conscience he helps a pregnant prisoner escape. After the war Klinsmann returns to his home in Kassel Germany determined to start life over. But he is accused of war crimes and becomes a man on the run fleeing from a brutal past that haunts him at every turn.<p> Seventeen years later Mikhail Krol a boy living in communist Poland learns from a drunken uncle he was adopted as a toddler and that his biological father was a German soldier. Devastated by this shocking revelation Mik feels his whole life has been a lie. He vows to find his biological father and his birth mother described to him as a mysterious dark-skinned foreigner who sang to him in a strange language.<p> Mik's commitment to discovering his heritage takes him to East Berlin and Paris during the height of the Cold War and eventually to Buenos Aires Argentina-a journey that confirms his worst suspicions when he uncovers the shocking truth about his parents.