Sadie Wollman, a young Jewess in 1924 Warsaw, Poland, has fallen in love with the handsome university professor-Alexander Kaminski. But when her traditional parents learn about this possible unholy matrimony to a gentile, they hastily arrange a brokered marriage to a wealthy Argentine Jewish business man-Ezra Porkevitch. Believing they sent their daughter off to a glamorous life of wealth and luxury, this young woman instead faces...