What happens when you try to escape who you are? Growing up in 1930s Manhattan, Benesh Burke will do anything to fit in—even if it means abandoning everything his immigrant Jewish family holds sacred, including his religion. Desperate to blend into American society, he reinvents himself as "Ben" and joins the Army, befriending the very soldiers who torment minorities. But in 1945, when his unit liberates Dachau concentration camp, Ben comes face-to-face with the ultimate cost of his betrayal. Surrounded by the bodies of those who died for the faith he casually discarded, his carefully constructed identity crumbles. Can someone who has denied his own people ever find redemption?