And this is the light

It is the summer of 1931, and 21-year-old Nora Krieger returns to her small-twon home in Lithuania from university in Berlin ready to present a new, mature self. Instead, her time at home beomces a period of unrequited love, difficult memories, and introspection. Young, educated and Jewish, she must accept the limits imposed on her by a class-conscious, increasingly anti-Semitic society.