While Rudolf takes his children to swim and fish, Hedwig tends to a beautiful garden and entertains guests. Servants, who may be muted prisoners, handle chores in the household. The household shows total apathy toward the gunshots and screams from the other side of the wall or toward the smoke from the furnaces.

Rudolf is promoted and transferred to Oranienberg while Hedwig chooses to stay back in her dream home. While Rudolf moves to Berlin, Hedwig invites her mother to come and stay. However, the aged lady is horrified by the presence of the camp and its sounds. She chooses to leave unannounced at night.

Rudolf receives appreciation at work and has a new operation at hand named after him. In the upcoming operation, Hungarian Jews were to be brought to Auschwitz camp to be killed, allowing Rudolf to reunite with his family.