Rachel
Steinn (Carice van Houten) is a beautiful Jewish woman living in
German-occupied Holland during late 1944. Her family members - who have
been falsely promised safe passage to Belgium (their names recorded in
the 'black book' of the title) are instead robbed and slaughtered by
the Germans on a premeditated basis; Rachel herself manages to escape
by diving into the water and swimming away. She narrowly avoids
capture, then joins the local resistance movement. With her hair dyed
blonde, Rachel can easily pass for Aryan, and when the leader of the
Dutch resistance movement learns his son has been captured by Axis
forces, Rachel is asked to use her feminine charms to persuade a German
commander to arrange for the boy's release. Rachel soon finds herself
caught up in a dangerous double life as she becomes a sexual plaything
for the Nazis while attempting to bring down their evil empire as a spy.
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