A comedy focusing on three Jewish widows who meet each year at the graves of their respective husbands and catch up with each others lives. To a musical score by Vangelis, the story story of two student athletes who train to compete track in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a Jewish Cambridge student who wishes to become accepted as a member of British society. The other runner is a Scottish missionary who runs as an act of prayer. Danny is a member of an Orthodox rabbinical family, while Reuven is a member of a more Zionist, secularly Jewish family.
Film explores both their schisms and bonds.
Starring Robbie Benson and Barry Miller. Italian nuns smuggle Jewish children to safety with the complicity of an Italian Army officer, But then the Germans take control of the area and the operation becomes more dangerous. A Croatian family saves a Jewish girl by arranging her to marry one of their sons. The son is not too thrilled with the idea of the marriage, and it is rocky. But when the Nazi's take over and he realizes that he loves her.