It is during this sojourn that Dr. Stolz establishes a deep connection with the stigmatic and clairvoyant Therese Neuman, and with her unlikely disciple, the journalist Fritz Gerlich. He vows to help in their mission to stop Hitler. But three years later, Gerlich is murdered by Heydrich’s men, and the stigmatist’s visions turn darker, more violent. Reeling from shock - and an abysmal sense of failure - Stolz meets a woman who helps him understand the miracle of empathy in the face of horror. It is the Jewish philosopher Edith Stein.

Back in Palestine, his sanity increasingly put to question by the patriarch, Dr. Stolz uses his camera to explore the realities of guilt, pain, and redemption. The outbreak of World War II, Edith Stein's murder at Auschwitz, and civil war in Palestine force him to confront himself, and his faith, in a new way. He devotes his life to a bitter – and behind-the-scenes – struggle against a deadly 2,000-year-old theological prejudice.