Son of Saul

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazi’s in the machinery of large scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a Rabbi to recite the mourners Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.