Syndrome K

A documentary film. Three Italian doctors from Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome (near the Vatican) rescued Jews during the Holocaust by using the conceit of a horrific, highly contagious disease that wasn't real. In the middle of World War II, during the Nazi occupation of Rome, three Italian doctors saved the lives of many Jews by convinced the Nazis that certain Jewish patients in their hospital were infected with a deadly disease they called Syndrome K. But Syndrome K never existed. It was completely fictitious . The doctors made it, ironically, the one horrible disease in human history that actually saved lives. Interviews with survivors and descendants of survivors, including the 98-year-old Adriano Ossicini, the last surviving doctor, and Pietro Borromeo, son of the head doctor at the hospital. Courage and sacrifice in the face of Nazi horror.