Maria Mandl, a charwoman in Münzkirchen, a small Austrian town, wanted to make a career, was assigned to the Auschwitz II Birkenau camp in Poland as the SS-Lagerführerin during the peak of the Holocaust from August 1943, and stayed there till November 1944. She was executed after the Krakow Trial as a direct complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners. The film shows how heavy the amount of memory lies on Mandls relatives, friends - and on her victims, the former camp inmates.