«The Prayer Book» is an epic about the role of memory as a foundation and silence as a heavy burden, where the desire to search for one’s roots becomes a means of achieving wholeness in the light of history whose echoes pass from generation to generation.
It was hidden so carefully that even her own grandson has no idea about both her identity and his own. A girl appears with a clear purpose—to help uncover the mystery of his origins. This is a family saga spanning decades and thousands of kilometers—from rescue during the Holocaust to the armed defense of oneself. The path runs from Latvia to Israel—from the 1940s to the present day.
The story of a family, the story of a country.