The Amsterdam criminal Dries Riphagen earns tons of money by tracing, exploiting and betraying Jewish people in hiding. A young resistance fighter starts his hunt.

Jan is out for revenge upon Riphagen after his resistance group is betrayed. The only problem is that Riphagen fled to the east of the Netherlands after mad tuesday.

When Germany has capitulated, Riphagen secretly returns to his family in Amsterdam. He is afraid to be caught as a traitor.