History - a favorite subject of American schoolboy Todd Bowden . He is a capable student, the hope of the school. With fear and trembling, he leaves the chronicle of a bloody past, peering into the faces of unnamed victims. Suddenly, the boy finds out that his neighbor is a cruel Nazi criminal who managed to escape justice. In exchange for his silence, the teenager demands that the old man reveal to him the sinister secrets of the darkest page in the history of mankind. While his peers study physics and mathematics, Todd learns a terrible science that does not take place in school - the science of evil. His neighbor is a good teacher.... In a quiet frightened old man again wakes up bloody warden of the concentration camp Kurt Dussander . And for a capable student, it's time for a crucial exam...fantlab. ru