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 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 couple must learn to deal with their 10-year-old son who seems to deeply hate them and harbor anti-semitic views.

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.

A Jewish mother wants her daughter to marry well and have a better life, but her husband doesn't seem to care. After her other daughter passes away, she realizes she should not hesitate to make bigger sacrifices.

When a young Southerner moves to New York City during the beginning of World War II, he meets Jewish people for the first time and must reconcile their existence with the growing air of anti-semitism.

A Jewish night-school teacher attempts to change an anti-Semitic student's negative assumptions about Jewish people.

The Jewish inhabitants of Poland are forced into relocation when a war invades their previously untouched city. When they escape via train, they find themselves on board with circus performers, so they too practice performing in order to blend in before the train arrives at their next show.

A Polish-Israeli produce vendor's son is mystified by his father's kind treatment of a philosophy professor as he slowly learns of the murders in the man's past.

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