The naive Catholic Romanian peasant Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn) is happily married to the gorgeous Suzanna (Virna Lisi). Sergeant Dobresco (Grégoire Aslan) is a wolf and lusts after Suzanna, who rejects him. So he includes the name of Johann in the list of Jewish people in the village, and he is sent to a forced labor camp for Jews. Johann explains to the commander that he is not Jewish, while Suzanna unsuccessfully seeks out authorities trying to fix the mistake, but she is forced to divorce Johann to keep their house. Johann finally accepts in joining a group of Jews to escape from the camp to Bulgary. However, he is captured again and sent to a concentration camp. However, the S.S. commander believes there is a mistake since he has the profile of the perfect Aryan and Johann joins the S.S. After the end of the war, he is sent to a prisoner camp and judged in Nuremberg, when he finally knows the fate of Suzanna.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil