The biographical drama of Hannah Arendt

New York, early sixties. When Hannah Arendt hears that the Israeli secret service has kidnapped a Nazi Adolf Eichmann and brought him from Buenos Aires to Jerusalem, decides in an instant to report from the trial. Magazine editor The New Yorker is excited that his correspondent from the historical process will be one of the most respected intellectuals of the time. And when Arendt enters a Jerusalem courtroom, she expects to see a monster, but instead finds an eerily ordinary bureaucrat. The mediocrity and shallowness of this man is difficult to reconcile with the great evil that pervades his actions, a Hannah Arendt she is convinced that this is the opposite of the puzzle she has to solve.