Fanny was a young child when her family moved away from a small village in Lithuania to the slums of Manchester, England. Other than having had a few years of public school education, she has spent most of her childhood at home, helping her mother while her father struggled to make a living. Simon has just graduated from the Vilna Yeshiva. He comes from a long line of rabbis and being a scholar in his devotion to Ha Shem is the essence of his life. With an arranged marriage awaiting him, he sails to England to meet his sixteen-year-old bride for the first time. An unlikely love story, Fanny and Simon travel into the dawn of the twentieth century together, fraught with Simon’s struggle between modernity and tradition, and Fanny’s desire to have more for her children than she had. Nonetheless, they are the backbone of each other’s lives, their children are the promise of tomorrow, and then tragedy strikes.
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