THE SPECTACLE SALESMAN'S FAMILY
Paul Schiefer is a traveling spectacles salesman; every Monday morning he leaves Hamburg on a week-long sales trip. His wife, mother-in-law, and two teenage daughters Fania and Vera see him off with abundant hugs and kisses, and they welcome him back with equal exuberance on Friday evening. . . just in time for Sabbath eve. While her husband is away, Alma Schiefer defends the well being of her family with an explosive mixture of ferocious love and extreme determination. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Fania is torn between the comfort of home and the fearful thrills of the unknown outside world, a 1960s world that contains student protest, beehive hairdos, Israel and the Six Day War, politics, religion, revolution, and the promise of love.