Stowed away on top of a train, twenty-year-old Wim Aloserij escapes slave labor in Germany in 1943. Despite the Dutchman's incredible efforts to stay hidden at a farm, he is captured and taken to the infamous Gestapo prison in Amsterdam, after which he is sent to a German labor camp that few will survive. As Frank Krake recounts, Aloserij has one additional peril to overcome in the war's closing days, when he is taken onboard the Cap Arcona, a prison ship whose sinking will claim 5,000 lives.