After a night in a hotel where Zev is forced to use his credit card, he arrives at the home of the fourth Rudy Kurlander and his family, and recognizes him from his voice as the Auschwitz Blockführer. After a young girl reads his letter to him, Zev leaves for South Lake Tahoe, California by taxi. In Reno, Nevada, Zev falls in the street and is taken to the hospital, which contacts his relieved son, who travels to Reno. Zev shoots the dog and then John in self-defense, collapses in exhaustion on John's bed and leaves the house in the morning.
When John, who is a neo-Nazi, sees Zev's tattoo and realizes he is Jewish, he becomes enraged and lets loose his German shepherd, Eva, named after Eva Braun. John, who thinks Zev is an old friend of his father's from the war, shows him his father's Nazi memorabilia but reveals, after several glasses of whiskey, that his father was only a boy and a cook during the war. His son, John, an Idaho state trooper, tells Zev that his father died three months ago. Zev travels to Boise and arrives at the house of the third Rudy Kurlander in Bruneau, Idaho. Zev finds the second Rudy Kurlander in a nursing home in Hearst, Ontario, but he turns out to have been a prisoner in Auschwitz, sent there as a homosexual, which he proves by showing Zev his arm tattoo. Zev confronts the first Rudy Kurlander, a German veteran of World War II, in his home, but this Kurlander proves that he served in the North African Campaign under Erwin Rommel, and was never near Auschwitz. and Canada named Rudy Kurlander, one of whom is the former Blockführer. Max directs Zev to a gun shop in Cleveland, where he buys a Glock 17, and then to the four men in the U.S. He has moments of confusion but he relies on the letter, which reminds him Ruth is dead, and Max arranges his travel. Zev leaves the nursing home in a taxi and boards a train to Cleveland as a Silver Alert is issued for his disappearance.
Max convinces Zev to avenge their families by seeking out and killing Wallisch and provides him written instructions to follow. Max reminds Zev that they are the only two who can still recognize Wallisch. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has located four Rudy Kurlanders, but there is no evidence to arrest any of them. Max has continually reminded Zev that their families were murdered at the camp by the Blockführer Otto Wallisch, who was believed to have immigrated to North America under the false name Rudy Kurlander. Another elderly patient and fellow Auschwitz survivor, the incapacitated Max Rosenbaum, reminds Zev of what he promised to do when Ruth died. In a New York City nursing home, Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Zev Guttman, an 89-year-old dementia patient awakens looking for his wife, Ruth, who died two weeks prior.
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