The black uniform of the Nazi SS was the symbol of everything wrong with Hitler's Germany. Dragged from the innocence and naivete of childhood, Aaron Singer is thrust into the dreadful hardships of the Auschwitz camp system where a brutal and premature adulthood is imposed. Here the SS would take what they wanted or needed from Aaron and the other Jews leaving only death as repayment. But it was within this ruthless structure he and a small band of others would fight for survival and pray for an eventual justice. Aaron's grandfather summed it up best. "Aaron you must be able to waltz with the Dark Angels without having them step on your toes. Let them believe that you are giving them what they want," Samuel continued "but never forget that what they truly want is your soul and that, they cannot have.""