Enter the colorful world of Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated Patricia Field, savvy retailer and costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada.

Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manhattan, Yidishe Kino endure not only as precious documents of a vanishing culture, but a fascinating genre unto itself, with its unique blend of schmaltz and shtick, a dash of operetta, often overlaid with brooding atmosphere. Restored by Lobster Films, Paris, presented by Kino Lorber, this series showcases careful new translations by Yiddish cultural historian Allen Lewis Rickman, which preserve the clever wordplay and conveys the fluidity of the multi-lingual dialogue.

On a small Texas farm at the turn of the century, a Swedish immigrant asks for work and begins a new life. Through no fault of his own, he causes the downfall of his new employer when a suspicious visitor comes to call.