In 1911, Solomon Levinsky, a young Orthodox Jew, lives with his Yiddish-speaking family in the South Wales Valleys. Solomon peddles fabrics door to door but hides his ethnicity due to anti-Semitism. One day, Solomon meets a demure, young gentile woman named Gaenor Rees and instantly falls in love with her.
Solomon returns after having made Gaenor a red dress and has her try it on. Struck by how beautiful Gaenor looks, Solomon and Gaenor share their first kiss.
Burdened by this secret, Solomon begins to struggle with his faith and feels distant from his family. After he and Gaenor are first intimate, Solomon guesses that she is not a virgin. She reveals that she was once engaged to a man, but they broke up after he was severely injured in a mining accident.
One day in chapel, a fellow worshipper named Noah Jones accuses Gaenor of being pregnant after “fornicating with an outsider.” The Rees family is expelled from the chapel. Idris tells Gaenor she has to get married or she cannot keep the baby.
Gaenor tracks down Solomon and confronts him about lying to her about who he is. Solomon explains that his family will not accept her, and he would be cast out for being with her. Solomon also says that he had struggled to accept her. Gaenor and Solomon begin to see each other again secretly and plan to run away together.
Anti-Semitic feelings rise in the valley due to many people’s financial struggles. Crad and his friends plan to ransack the shop owned by the Levinsky family. The family decides to hide elsewhere for safety.
Solomon faces harsh conditions and is ill by the time he reaches Gaenor at her aunt’s. Gaenor nurses him, but he is fatally ill. Solomon, but it is clear it is too late to save him. He and Gaenor declare their love for each other.
By the next morning, he has died. Soon after, Gaenor gives birth to their baby. With her father, Gaenor takes Solomon’s casket to be buried.
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