Synopsis
The central figure of the film is Borik Rak, former chairman of the last Jewish collective farm. His parents, who arrived to Birobidzhan among the fist Jewish settlers, exchanged a horse and cart for a tractor. The children and grandchildren of those who moved to the Soviet Far in the 1920s, `30s and `40s to build the Jewish Autonomous Region have dispersed across the world, leaving graves in the little Jewish cementaries with red stars on the obelisks. This land was supposed to become a paradise for an enormous number of Jews. The reality proved harsh.