Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of what happened Over There. No-one will explain to him what the Nazi Beast is. He imagines it hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jew. Increasingly afraid, Momik shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his greatuncle tells him, the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, Momik learns to love.