The Shawl

At once fiercely immediate and complex in its implications, The Shawl succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath.

In The Shawl, a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. And there is a shawl—a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.