After the war, some camp survivors have emigrated to Israel or the US, other return to Amsterdam, like the Cohens. returning isn't easy, with legal rules dragging inheritances over ten year without regular proof of dates of deaths and reluctance to return items given in informal consignment. It's even worse for the Cohens, whose name is tainted by Jewish 'honor council' and Dutch legal procedures after charges of collaboration against the members and staff of the council, but the arrested professor puts up a convincing defense, only Verrie can't cope with the consequences of her father's impossible choices, wrongly blaming him for the children she couldn't save.
—KGF Vissers