Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi Germany Extermination camps in the Holocaust survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. One day, Israeli secret agents kidnap Goldman and take him to Israel for trial on charges of being a Nazi war crime. Goldman's trial forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt, but their own as well.