Mendel

Drama of a Jewish family, The Trotzigs', from Germany who, having survived the Nazi concentration camps, relocate to Norway in 1954. Curious nine-years-old Mendel Trotzig, who was born after the war, knows his family is keeping something from him, a secret that seems connected to a mysterious photograph in his mother's pocketbook, but his parents are determine to shield him from the horrors of the past.