What was it like to be the only Jew in a small town on the west coast of Norway in the 1920s and 1930s? This is the story of Moritz Rabinowitz, a penniless Polish immigrant who fell in love with the “unsnobbish and natural” town of Haugesund and made it the home of the largest clothing factory in the country. An outspoken public critic of the Nazi regime, Rabinowitz topped Hitler’s most-wanted list when the Germans invaded Norway in April 1940. Contrasting the continued prominence of Rabinowitz’s name with the shameful silence about his fate in the town he loved, this film is a disturbing presentation of an isolated and inward-looking society unconcerned about the fate of strangers, in which the exquisite natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and fjords stands as an ironic commentary on the behavior of its inhabitants. An engrossing and unsettling study of understated, unspoken, and utterly unselfconscious anti-Semitism.  TM