"The General" is a love story. It's about a man who becomes a military hero only to find his world crumbling around him. Yet even against the backdrop of World War II, people can still find it in their hearts to care for each other. As we follow the General through his ordeal, we see human beings coming together to love each other and to survive the most horrible of circumstances. A French nurse is murdered. Her son is cared for by poor Jewish refugees until he finds out who he is and finds his ancestral home in the heart of Germany. We follow his restless search for answers about the war as he reunites with his grandfather, Baron Von Helsing. He takes the wrong path and both father and son suffer for it. A daughter, a survivor of the death camps, seeks only revenge for the death of her parents. Neither she nor her parents ever know that both have survived the war. And still, with most of Germany destroyed because of the Nazis, their radical ideology will not die. Many of the Fuehrer's most vicious and radical followers have survived and are making plans for the Fourth Reich.