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Saul’s quest is "irrational" in a death camp, but it represents a final act of spiritual defiance.

The story follows Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. As a member of the , he is forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of extermination.

He becomes obsessed with giving the boy a proper Jewish burial with a rabbi, rather than seeing him cremated.