一位埃及考古学者在研究过程中发现了一样奇怪的东西，从而引起人们的反对，相关部门为了平息风波，将考古学者软禁起来，没有人知道究竟是什么东西？七十年之后，考古学者依然活着，他希望自己可以赶快结束生命，照顾他的女孩也开始了解这个秘密，人们的正常生活也发生了变化……

　　柏林电影节特别展映　　21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand - and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma's only hope to survive is a last forged ID - with his own name on it.