A klezmer band travels to Pinsk to perform at a "shvartze chaseneh," or "black wedding"--an event staged by the residents to bring a miracle to their town threatened by a cholera epidemic.
The most beautiful dreidel a shopkeeper has ever seen will not spin for the two children who insist they must own it, but perhaps it would spin for a child with the true spirit of Hanukkah in his heart.