In this BBC film the history of the persecution and genocide of the European Roma, SInti and Gypsies is documented through interviews with survivors in Germany, Hungary, Austria Poland, France and the Netherlands. The film evokes the growing threat to European Roma as the Nazis turned their attention to other 'racial aliens' beyond the Jews. The film is based around a series of long interviews with survivors and also contains generous footage from Moholy-Nagy's rarely seen 1932 film Gypsies in the City (Grossstadtzigeuner).