The film takes place in the summer of 1945. For the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp, a makeshift orphanage is created in an abandoned palace among forests. Their guardian becomes a twenty-year-old Hanka, also a prisoner. After the horrors of the camp, the heroes slowly regain the remnants of a lost childhood, but the nightmare quickly returns to them. In the surrounding woods, camp wolfhounds circulate. Released by the SS before the liberation of Gross-Rosen, famished and feral animals surround the palace in search of food. In terrified children the camp instinct of survival starts.