World War II ... the Nazi regime is in its final death throes. Millions in gold taken from the victims of the Final Solution has been delivered into the hands of Untersturmführer Karl Schweizer of the SS. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler plans to use the gold to effect his escape from Allied justice. But both the gold and Schweizer have disappeared. Injured in a bomb blast Schweizer has lost all memory of his past and the location of the gold. Years later Schweizer is a successful business man in Cincinnati. Haunted by nightmares, his personal life falling apart, Schweizer returns to Germany in search of his past. Stalked by an unknown assassin who systematically murders those who hold the clues to his forgotten past, Schweizer's quest brings him to a railroad bridge in the Black Forest ... his bridge to nowhere. Does he dare cross it to learn the secrets buried deep within his mind?