A group of Jewish scholars prays in a time of need. However, one man decides that God won't save them and goes against his faith by asking for another being to aid them: the Golem.

Lonely and sickly, the Andalusian Hebrew poet Solomon ibn Gabirol creates a golem to care for him. But the golem possesses more life than he expected and kills him as well as several others before fleeing and starting a new life.