The Liberation is inspired by true events and depicts a sensitive chapter in the history of Denmark: The handling of approximately 250 thousand German refugees who came to Denmark right before the country’s liberation in the spring of 1945. When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for 500 German refugees, the headmaster’s family is thrust into an impossible dilemma. Should they go against the Danes´ anti-German sentiment and help the refugees – or stand firm against the resistance against the Germans?