In a Jewish community located in Lithuania, where the plague is decimating the population, a woman creates a creature known as "golem" to protect her people from being besieged, mistreated and killed by a gang of ruffians, led by a Lithuanian landowner who accuses the Jews of causing the plague.
During an outbreak of a deadly plague in Lithuania, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from a gang of ruffians led by a local landowner, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.