In the center of the plot of the historical drama "Phoenix" a woman named Nelly Lena, who became one of the many victims of the Holocaust. She spent a long time in one of the concentration camps, where she was severely maimed, not only the soul but also the face. However, despite this, Nelly is alive, and more than anything, she wants to find her husband Johannes. One day, with the help of an employee of the so-called Jewish Agency, Nelly gets to Berlin, where she carried out a complex plastic surgery. Recovering, the woman immediately goes in search of her husband. And when she still manages to find him, Johannes is not recognized in Nelly his wife, he is sure that she died. However, Johannes admits that a woman unfamiliar to him is very much like his late wife, and offers Nellie to transform his wife, so as to receive the inheritance left to her family…