Berta Alshonsky revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow, so different from her life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant comes into the grocery, Berta falls in love. She's unaware that he is a member of The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the shtetls to defend against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian countryside. Their marriage gives Berta the life she once had in Moscow - until a smuggling operation goes awry.