A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.
Acting
Gruffudd's eyes do 90% of the heartbreaking.
Cinematography
Welsh valleys so grey they feel like a character.
Director
Paul Morrison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ioan Gruffudd learned Yiddish phonetically for the role; his grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who never spoke of it.
The 1911 Tredegar riots depicted were real — the last major anti-Jewish violence in British history, barely taught in schools.
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