Davyd Yanover

La jeune et belle, Pidorka, aime un ouvrier agricole, Petro, et espère l'épouser. Mais son père, un des hommes les plus riches de la région, a d'autres projets de mariage pour elle. Les jeunes amoureux, désespérés, rencontrent Basaviull, un sorcier. A partir de ce moment là, la mort et la folie vont rentrer dans la famille de Pidorka.

Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by the next day to keep their farm. Mendel calls their children, Mollie, in Philadelphia, and Morris, in New York, to come right away. His neighbor Michel believes that most children do not properly care for their parents and insinuates that Mendel's children would not come to visit if they knew that their parents needed money. Mendel, however, assures Michel that children are the best investment one can make.