A teenager fascinated by atrocities learns that his new neighbour is a Nazi war criminal living under an assumed identity. He offers to keep the old man's secret in return for details of the crimes against humanity he committed in a concentration camp. However, the relationship begins to have a strange effect on the boy. Thriller, starring Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer.

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.