Berlin 1932, days after the elections which will soon bring Hitler to power.  Mark Erdmann is an acclaimed Jewish physicist, the head of the atomic lab at the University of Berlin.  His wife Leah, an avid consumer of the city’s rich cultural life, is intent on having an affair with Mark’s young German assistant.  The signs of impending danger are increasing, but the power of self-delusion cannot be easily overcome as the Jewish couple ponders whether to seek an unknown future outside Germany or to stay put and succumb to a fate known to us in hindsight.