Fifteen-year old Johann Stein, obsessed with anger and resentment against God,
escapes from Auschwitz to take on the elements and the dangers of Nazi-occupied
Warsaw, Poland. Successfully surviving out of sheer determination and street-smart
skills, he eventually acquires an engineering degree to be able to engage in the aircraft industry. His casual encounter with Genevieve Pulasky, a Polish Catholic nurse, leads
to an unlikely union of polar opposite world views: an angry self-centered man and a
self-giving, altruistic woman.