In his literary texts, Roberto Schopflocher reflects on German, Jewish and Argentine life-worlds and repeatedly turns his attention to the experience of persecution and exile. In doing so, he spans a period of history far beyond his own experience of exile during the Nazi era.

In his novel Das Komplott zu Lima [The Lima Conspiracy], the author uses the Acosta family, particularly their adolescent daughter Elvira, to illustrate the fate of baptised Spanish Jews who fled from Europe to South America in the 17th century to escape persecution by the Inquisition. The Acosta family flee to Brazil, which soon turns out to be no longer safe. As the persecution of Jews spreads from Europe to South America, Elvira continues her flight across the continent and is exposed to the constant mistrust and hatred of the Christian majority.

In his obituary of Roberto Schopflocher, Germanist Frederick A. Lubich had the following to say about Das Komplott zu Lima: "Time and again, the repeatedly invoked parallel worlds of this monumental narrative work set in the Latin American Baroque period reflect and refract the two great catastrophes of Jewish history that took place in the modern era of the Christian West, i.e. the Spanish Inquisition and the Nazi Holocaust.” (ed. trans.; Wohin gehen wir? Immer nach Hause [Where are we going? Always home], 2016) The novel Das Komplott zu Lima was the last novel written by the German-born Argentine writer. Like all of his literary works from the late 1990s onwards, it was written in German.