The Flat

German-Jew Gerda Tuchler has just passed away at 98. Although she lived in the same Tel Aviv flat for most of her life with her long-deceased husband Kurt Tuchler following the extradition of Jews from Germany in the 1930s, she was more emotionally German than Israeli, as witnessed by the fact that she never learned to speak Hebrew. For his own historical record, one of her grandsons, Arnon Goldfinger, decides to film the process of cleaning out Gerda's apartment, led by Gerda's daughter/Arnon's mother Hannah Goldfinger. They all go into the process believing that beyond the painted portraits of Gerda and Kurt, there is little among Gerda's possessions that anyone would want to keep or that they would be able to sell. However, they stumble across records that Gerda and Kurt were close friends with Leopold von Mildenstein, a high-ranking Nazi official and mentor to Adolf Eichmann in the 1930s, and his wife, Gerda von Mildenstein, a friendship that was established in Germany before their extradition and continued after the war. Arnon decides to step in front of the camera as he begins to search for information on that friendship with Hannah, whose generation had a "put the past behind" mentality, especially about the war and Jewish persecution by the Nazis. His search not only delves into the Tuchler side, but also the von Mildensteins' relations--a possibly touchy subject. Their discoveries will include what happened to Hannah's maternal grandmother, Susanne Lehmann, which makes the Tuchler/von Mildenstein friendship all the more astounding.