Plunderer is a feature-length documentary about art stolen from Jews by the Nazis. It focuses on Bruno Lohse, Hermann Goering's art dealer in Paris during the war, who prospered by selling stolen art for sixty years after the war while Jewish families struggled to regain their paintings and memories. The film weaves three story threads.

The first is the never-before-told life and crimes of Bruno Lohse, a member of the SS and close advisor to Hermann Goering. We follow historian Jonathan Petropoulos, author of "Goering's Man in Paris," (recently published by Yale University Press to which we have exclusive rights), as he travels to seven countries on a detective-like quest to piece together the mosaic of Lohse's massive thefts.

The second is about families still struggling to regain their stolen art and lost memories. Jews in France, Germany, and elsewhere were crucial to the creation of modern Western Europe. They were the innovators in industry and finance as well as in culture. They also created important art collections, which the Nazis coveted and looted.

The third story probes the frequent disregard of provenance in the art world, where galleries and museums knowingly and secretly dealt in looted art with ex-Nazis. This is a previously untold story. Returning stolen art became a cat-and-mouse game. As no regulations govern the art trade, restitution following the Holocaust became a moral issue that is now drawing much attention.