Eddie Brenner, a circuit riding social worker is faced with a dilemma that is about to change his life. A literary and moral inheritance that he receives from his father, a holocaust survivor, will throw his very existence into disarray. He leaves his calm home in Canada for Israel in order to hook up with his father's friend and partner from the camps. He has 10 months to complete a job that he finds almost impossible to accomplish. If he fails, he will have failed his father and the memory of millions that died at the hands of the Nazis. In Israel he meets a troubled and beautiful young widow and encounters several people that will solve a mystery that he has grappled with or over a decade.