Paul Schiefer is a traveling spectacles salesman every Monday morning heleaves Hamburg on a weeklong sales trip. His wife motherinlaw and twoteenage daughters F... » 

Paul Schiefer is a traveling spectacles salesman every Monday morning heleaves Hamburg on a weeklong sales trip. His wife motherinlaw and twoteenage daughters Fania and Vera see him off with abundant hugs and kisses andthey welcome him back with equal exuberance on Friday eveningjust in time forSabbath eve. While her husband is away Alma Schiefer defends the well being ofher family with an explosive mixture of ferocious love and extremedetermination. Meanwhile 13yearold Fania is torn between the comfort of homeand the fearful thrills of the unknown outside world a 1960s world thatcontains student protest beehive hairdos Israel and the Six Day Warpolitics religion revolution and the promise of love. «