The blind faith of three elderly shoemakers, who previously abused a young boy daring to criticize Stalin, begins to disintegrate when they learn of the Soviet leader's crimes and the manifest antisemitism on display at the Prague Trials.

The kibbutz gathers for a mourning assembly where member Elka (Doron Golan) speaks about Stalin's virtues.

Shmulik (Aharon Almog) is secretly involved with her and asks her not to give up the compensation from Germany so that they can use that money to leave the kibbutz and travel to America.

Moshiko and Label doubt his guilt, but Avraham'le scolds them and throws clichés at them like, "There's no smoke without fire" and "When you chop wood, chips fly."

The kibbutz secretary, Moshe (Dudik Smadar), storms into the hall and announces the cancellation of the celebration in light of Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin's crimes.

Avraham'le looks through the binoculars, and a wide smile spreads across his face; instead of the crescent moon, he sees the hammer and sickle symbol.

[1] Although it was both a critical and a commercial failure, it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and was the first Israeli feature to participate in the Moscow and Warsaw Film Festivals.

.. Nadav Levitan took characters from the actual fabric of the kibbutz he knew, including the sandal workshop with Stalin's picture on the wall, and little by little wove the pieces together.

Blind worship for Stalin and unshaken belief in the Soviet Union was disintegrating on the kibbutz, partly triggered by 1952 Prague arrest and confession under torture of spying for British intelligence against Communist states by far left Hashomer Hatzair and Mapam functionary Mordechai Oren of Kibbutz Mizra.