Historian Loe de Jong became known in the Netherlands in the 1960s as the presenter of the television series The Occupation and later as the writer of The Kingdom of the Netherlands in World War II. He becomes the national conscience of war, but he does not reveal much about his own Jewish family, including his twin brother Sally, killed in the war. His granddaughter Simonka searches for the reason for Loe's mysterious silence and comes across a family story that is marked by lack, jealousy and guilt.