In a series of confessions, Truth in Ash depicts the life of Kristian Wolff, son of Josef and Maria, husband to Magda. Peter, Mark, John and Luke relate a life as they knew him, just as Christ's apostles would have done so. To complete the picture, Lawyer Paul defends Kristian in court, convincing the jury of one version of the truth.
Telling it as known and sometimes as they wanted it known, we are left unsure how much crime balanced against compassion and courage. Truth is distorted by flawed witness and politics on one side and a selective recollection on the other. We never gain the real truth and the trial ends in doubt and rancour. Complicity of both Kristian and his church stand on thin ice particularly as most evidence floated away as ash from the camp chimney.