An indictment of man's inhumanity to man, The Seventh Circle chronicles the suffering of a Bavarian university student who is accused of violating Paragraph 175, which makes sexual relations between men illegal. The Gestapo sends him to a concentration camp where he endures torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of his sadistic SS captors. Surviving six years, he returns home a broken man and must face a father who cannot accept his suffering and the fact it was his lover who betrayed him.