Мендл опять в строю. Еще два года ожесточенных боев, и наступает возмездие.

A young boy from a small Jewish town on the Ukraine, Mendel, caught sight of a real motor car for the first time in his life and it gave rise to a sweet dream. His sister, Golde, hope of the farther will light up with electrical bulbs in the buildings and the streets, like in capital Kiev, then she don't to have stay in line to purchase kerosene. The youngest sister, small Lucy, liked hearing in the cold winter evening, together with all family, Grandmothers tale of the mystery land of America, where one of her daughters, Aunt Fanny, departed.

The parents, Aba and Etl, took care to keep the children from illness and starvation. They wanted their children to join for the Jewish new-year holiday, Passover, Purim, but it's impossible in his own country.

By effort to unmask the robbers, Aba discovered a cruel deadly hatred threatening the future of his native folk and safety of his family. Soon he perished from the robber's hand.

Mendel wonted to leave to go to the city of Kiev to continue his education, but the fascist invasion interrupted the studies and he get under way at the front. He wanted to believe the Red Army is invisible, however tragedy defense of Kiev to make certain that is only a myth. To be captivated half of million soviet soldiers. Mendel succeeds to tear away from the captivity near native town. There he found his mother and sisters in the ghetto.

"Explain me, oh my God, why strong, powerful, healthy men put down the arms to the leg of murderers of their families?"- Exclaimed a girl from the ghetto faced Mendl.

Attempts to join the partisans group were unsuccessful.

In the mean time, a punitive group took away the Jewish inhabitants of the town to shoot them. Mendel together with his friend called to all of Jewish people to run. He shot ahead over double obstruction of CC command and Ukrainian nationalistic police. Not many had a success rescue. The mother and sister Lucy were lost.