Summary

In 1972, a group of police officers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania are summoned to the Chicken Hill neighborhood when a land developer discovers the remnants of a body while digging up a well. The officers question the oldest resident of the neighborhood, a Jewish man named Malachi, and inform him that he is a suspect in the murder. Malachi is unfazed. The next day, a hurricane kills power throughout the county, and Malachi escapes.

Forty-seven years earlier, in 1924, a man named Moshe Ludlow operates the All-American Dance Hall and Theater in Pottstown, PA. He manages to convince Mickey Katz, a famous Jewish clarinetist, to come to Pottstown and perform klezmer music for four nights in a row. Moshe struggles to advertise the show. Fearful of the debt he has accumulated to his cousin Isaac, Moshe goes to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store to...