In post-World War II America, Maja Reid is a Romanian refugee who has built a new life with her American husband, Lewis, and their young son, Patrick, but she is still haunted by her dark memories of the war, still having nightmares. While walking on the street, she recognizes a man who she believes is a former German soldier she encountered 15 years ago. She tails him to the house where she sees that he has a wife and two children. The next day, on the pretense that her car broke down, Maja knocks the man out and puts him in the trunk. The Secrets We Keep 2020
Returning to the house, Maja tells Lewis her past memories, saying that she and some other women escaped to Romania where the SS soldiers found them and murdered few of them. She then admits that she has put the man, she thinks is a Nazi war criminal in the trunk of their car, further disturbing Lewis. The two of them then bring the man to the basement and tie him up in the chair. There, Maja interrogates the man, when the latter insists that his name is Thomas Steinmann and that he is Swiss but Maja disputes him, telling him that his name is “Karl” and recounts the background of his war crimes. Thomas attempts to escape and yells for help at the front door but Lewis incapacitates him. When one of the neighbors named Jim is awakened by Thomas’ yell, Maja convinces him that it came from the street. The next day the neighbor accompanied by police and Thomas’ wife, Rachel are going house to house, searching for Rachel’s husband and the source of the screaming the night before. At the clinic where Lewis is working, he looks up a document about Thomas, stating that he is indeed a native from Switzerland.
At the house, Thomas continues to deny Maja’s allegations of Thomas’ crimes until she forces him to say “Zigeuner Fotze”