This film deals directly with its moral conflicts; the battle between saving others who are destined for extreme evil or saving oneself for one's own well-being. The film shows an everyday town with ordinary people and tells the story of how an ordinary town, a man and a family were affected and confused by the increasingly poor treatment of the Jewish people. A famous quote by Jadislaw Macke states: "The die was cast with the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws, the rest was a matter of fantasy", meaning the rest was incomprehensible, meaning people only understood what 'they wanted to believe, just like Tono. marry. This movie related to this quote shows that when times are tough, everyone needs someone to blame, and Jews were the common scapegoat, and Tono's brother-in-law helped enforce that.