Now a major motion picture this is a story of obsession loyalty and control as one man with dark intentions charms his way into the lives of an innocent unsuspecting family based on the true exile of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele to South America Patagonia 1960 Jose is on the run Having fled from his homeland of Germany he has come to South America to continue his work as a doctor seeking to manipulate genes to create the perfect human race In the small village of Chacharramendi he meets Lilith a child he first notices from the balcony of his motel who instantly fascinates yet repulses him Lilith has a growth defect and the disproportionate size of her features represents all that Jose is trying to exterminate from humankind Yet even more intriguing is the fact that her siblings are perfect examples of the Aryan race tall strongly built and fair The anomaly of Liliths existence enthralls Jose and when he discovers Liliths mother is pregnant the temptation to involve himself in their lives and even interfere with the pregnancy is too much for him to pass up A cold calculating but eerily charming man Jose befriends Lilith and manipulates his way into the family And so begins a dark relationship between the doctor and the little girl a kind of love that cannot end well For Jose is actually Nazi doctor Josef Mengele infamous for performing human experiments at Auschwitz and sooner or later his past is going to catch up with him