In 1944, just before the start of the planned deportation of one million Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, the inmates Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped the camp to warn the world about the impending apocalypse. Their hope was to get the Allies, who were still oblivious to the Nazi extermination machinery, to stop the genocide. Wetzler's and Vrba's efforts didn't prevent the Hungarian holocaust, but they did help to stop the final round of deportations, thus contributing to the saving of almost 200 thousand people. Despite his heroic efforts, after the war Alfred Wetzler was targeted in the communist purges in Czechoslovakia. His name was erased from history and his family was under secret surveillance. The Consequences of Truth tells Wetzler's extraordinary story via the use of newly discovered archive and creative reenactments, creating a uniquely creative historical documentary.
