When the devoted wife of a Yiddish writer recruits a young man to translate her husband's work in 1960's New York, the young man must contemplate his priorities and mission in life.

An older Jewish man living in America becomes increasingly jealous of a fellow writer as his Yiddish poetry is continuously rejected by publishers, while his colleague's short stories are translated into English and earn him fame and success.

In Miami, a Yiddish writer meets a multimillionaire who tells him tales of sex and survival during the Holocaust.

A hardworking Jewish family is assaulted by a local gang for their beliefs, resulting in the destruction of their business and exhibiting the apathy of the onlookers.

When a German professor teaching Comparative Literature at an Indiana university in the 1950s receives a letter, he suspects anti-Semitic motives.

A seventeen-year-old Jewish boy reflects on his life as he lies gushing out blood, on the brink of death, in Germany at the end of World War II.

A Jewish-American man returns from World War II to an excruciating situation: he must tell his parents and his fiancee that he is settling in Israel. During their heartbreaking reunion, he and his family confront what it means to belong and debate how the Jewish people can achieve it.

A woman tells the story of her father's mother, a Jewish woman from Germany who moves to Latvia to marry an older man during the middle of the twentieth century, to her daughter. The woman reminds her daughter to be cautious of dreamers and to always read the news so that she does not end up with the same fate as that of the grandmother.

A Russian emigre calls a long-lost relative in New York asking for asylum. Her strange, self-sabotaging actions call into question her real intentions.

A Jewish communist quit working at an editorial bureau where his co-workers are bothered by his leftist ideology because of his boss' praises of him.