1945 Karl Maria Weisthor (Wiligut) is evicted from his SS guest-house on the Worthersee in Austria by British troops and assigned to an Allied refugee camp at St. Johann near Velden. While there, the 78-year-old Weisthor suffers a stroke which results in partial paralysis and loss of speech. Weisthor, a former SS Brigadier, and his SS housekeeper are released by the British and allowed to return to his old family home in Salzburg (Mund; Roots)