Fed up with poverty, Yakov Bok decides to leave the shtetl and travel to Kiev in search of work. He attempts to leave behind an ethnic identity that has meant only hardship and suffering. For a while, he manages to pass for a Gentile and to hold a decent job. Unfortunately, however, a child is found horribly murdered, and Bok, exposed as a Jew, is accused of having murdered the child.
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