Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist| living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie| often shocking Charlie with hisoutrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless| Charlie is astonished when| one day| Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman forbeing not a Jewish businessman but a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial| Goldman forces his accusers to face not only his presumed guilt--but their own.