In 1945 five teenage girls are freed from the concentration camp in Birkenau. Together they emigrate to the United States to begin a new life. They settle down and get married, but stay in touch with one another. The past is forgotten until 1970, when they recognise the former head of the concentration camp, now a restaurant owner in Los Angeles. They report him to the Simon Wiesenthal Institute, but they find out that nothing can be done because he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served his prison sentence. This is not good enough for the women, since they have all been raped and tortured by him. Together they make a plot to execute him.
This is a very good story, but the film is let down by poor acting. None of the women are believable characters, and their fake German accents make their performance even worse. In the hands of a better director with better actors at his disposal this could have been a masterpiece. This film is in urgent need of a remake.
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