An analysis of the life of German officer and physician Josef Mengele, exploring his youth and studies, his adherence to Nazism, the inhumane experiments conducted at Auschwitz and the connection between Nazism and the German academic system. The series recounts his long fugitive life, also filled with legends to debunk, and delves into the circumstances that allowed the most wanted Nazi criminal in the world to die a free man on the beach of Bertioga in Brazil.