Can one imagine intimacy with a person responsible for millions of deaths, of Nazism, the worst criminal plot in history: Rudolph Hess, alleged original author of Mein Kampf? - the director's grandfather did. Hess' protestant pastor during his last ten years of imprisonment in Spandau was his only confident. How to deal with those, which Hanna Arendt prevented from being considered as monsters: getting to Hess' humanity was Charles' mission.