In the 1970s, Esther, an American woman mourning her mother, receives a letter that sets her on a journey to uncover a hidden chapter of her family's history. With the help of Zayde, a university professor with secrets of his own, she begins searching for a woman who lived decades earlier in British Mandate Palestine. The woman is Yehudit, whose arrival in a settler's village in the 1930s entangled the lives of three men: a widowed father, an idealistic farmer and a cattle trader. By tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde discover a shocking truth. Based on the acclaimed novel The Loves of Judith by beloved author Meir Shalev.