Kiev, 1911.
What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction..
Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed.
When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews.
Kiev, 1911