Outspoken journalist and author Cordelia Edvardson is an institution in Sweden. Colleagues have described her style as “logical, sharp, controversial and unconventional”. Documentary filmmaker Stefan Jarl has been an avid reader of her work for years. Cordelia Edvardson was born in 1929 in Berlin, where she lived until 1943 with her mother, the writer Elisabeth Langgässer. In 1943, as the daughter of a Jewish father, she was transported to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. She survived and went on to work as a journalist in Sweden after the war. During the 1974 Yom Kippur war she emigrated to Israel, where she still works as a correspondent for the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. In this portrait Stefan Jarl combines vintage footage of the Nazi era with lengthy interviews in Sweden and Israel that show Cordelia Edvardson as an unsentimental chronicler of her own eventful life and as a critical observer of Israeli policy.