Jacob "Izzy" Rabinowitz is a partner with his brothers in a successful textile firm, Feivel Rabinowitz and Sons, founded in the late 19th century in Bielitz (Bielsko), a city in Southwestern Poland. With the advent of WWII, Jacob and his family try to flee, but are intercepted and transported to Kazakhstan. With cleverness and some luck, they survive the hardships and ultimately return to the starting point after the war with the ambition to go to...