Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.
Maya and Renata are childhood friends that haven't seen each other for 10 years, but a coincidental meeting leads them to going out into the country together and visit their old school with their boyfriends.
