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The Plot
- 1939 (Lublin, Poland): Eli Rosen, his wife Esther, and their young son live in Lublin, where Eli’s family runs a successful construction and brickyard business. When Nazi forces invade, the business is “Aryanized” (confiscated) and handed over to Maximilian (Max) Poleski, an unscrupulous former employee and profiteer. Poleski strikes a dark bargain: he promises to keep Eli’s family safe in exchange for Eli and his father continuing to run the company. Poleski ultimately breaks his promise, exploits their labor, and fails to protect Esther, who vanishes into the Nazi camp system.
- 1946 (Post-War Germany): Eli and his son Izaak are liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Eli embarks on a desperate search through the ruins of Europe to find out what happened to Esther.
- 1965 (Chicago): Decades later, Eli lives in Chicago and works to track down Max Poleski—whom he believes survived the war—to hold him accountable for his war and post-war crimes and uncover the truth about his wife’s disappearance.
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