Saul Ausländer
Abraham
Eli Biederman
Bearded Prisoner
Rabbi Frankel
Saul's Son
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
Feigenbaum
Russian Prisoner
Mietek
Oberscharführer Voss
Oberscharführer Busch
Yankl
Schlojme
Apikojresz
Hirsch
Katz
Ella
Landesman
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.