In the aftermath of WWII Nelly a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp horribly disfigured from a bullet wound in her face undergoes a series of facial reconstruction surgeries and decides to find her husband Johnny who works at the Phoenix club in Berlin. Undoubtedly Nelly is stunning yet her new self is beyond recognition so Johnny the man who may have betrayed her to the Nazis will never imagine that the woman in front of him who bears an uncomfortable and unsettling resemblance to his late wife is indeed her. Without delay and with the intention to collect the deceased's inheritance Nelly will go along with Johnny's plot and she will impersonate the dead woman giving the performance of a lifetime before friends and relatives in a complex game of deceit duplicity and ultimately seduction. In the end during this masquerade as the fragile and broken Nelly tries to find out whether Johnny betrayed her or not she will have to dig deep into her wounded psyche and inevitably choose between revenge and forgiveness.