The New York Times has deemed this extraordinary collection to be "the crown jewel of public and network television."

In a detention room in Nazi-occupied France, eight men suspected of being Jewish are awaiting interrogation before being either released or sent to concentration camps; most are Jews with false papers that will not stand up to close scrutiny. Events soon focus on a Jewish psychiatrist (Harris Yulin) and an Austrian prince (Richard Jordan), who recognizes his guilt of silent complicity and his failure to act responsibly while the Germans rose to power.

With unrelenting honesty and conviction, Arthur Miller raises many theoretical and ideological questions about the nature of personal sacrifice and moral accountability.