Swedish Foreign Ministry bureaucrat Gösta Engzell, overlooked during WWII, rescued thousands Jews while turning supposedly neutral Sweden into a moral force. His efforts challenged the status quo and left a lasting humanitarian legacy.

The film engagingly shows how a handful of bureaucrats, who could easily have remained pencil-pushers buried under mounting piles of paperwork, instead chose to step beyond their job descriptions to help people with whom they had no direct connection. What could have easily devolved into a trite, melodramatic tearjerker of a World War story is instead rendered by the writers as an unexpectedly uplifting tragicomedy. – Abstract AF!