Germany's surrender in May 1945 did not end the crisis for the millions of people the war had displaced. This film follows what came next: liberated concentration camp survivors with nowhere to go, ethnic Germans expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia, former forced laborers stranded far from home, and Allied administrators trying to feed and house populations across a continent of ruined cities and broken rail lines. Archival footage of refugee columns, bombed-out towns, and displaced persons camps carries much of the narrative, alongside historian commentary explaining how the occupying powers carved up Germany and tried to impose order on chaos. The film traces the scale of the movement, tens of millions of people crossing borders in a matter of months, and the political decisions in Yalta and Potsdam that shaped who went where. It closes on the uneasy transition from wartime alliance to Cold War division, as the cleanup of one conflict starts laying the groundwork for the next.