Young student nurses in occupied Oslo during World War II . Those still alive today are now old women. 450 of them had volunteered when German Red Cross nurses were seeking helpers for their military hospitals. Still today they have difficulties speaking about their experiences on the Eastern Front and in their homeland after the War. Six women - including one who later lived in the GDR, and another who originated from Germany - speak of their relationships to German soldiers, rape by Red Army soldiers, trials and prison sentences in Norway, and the social ostracism they experienced. The filmmakers are touching on social taboos: "One fascination was how we human beings always believe that we would make the right and good decision in any given circumstances, even though history shows time and time again – is is not always so.”