A desperate Jewish mother, living in the Polish town of Shedlets at the end of the 18th century, seeks a cure for her daughter Reina-Haya, who suffers from epilepsy, the disease that has taken the lives of all her other children. The Seer of Koznits sends her to a Jewish goldsmith and Cabbalist in Danzig so that he can cast a magic ring, made of ten gold bands, for the girl. The mother returns to her town accompanied by the goldsmith's son, Shmuel. He puts the ring on the girl's finger, saves her and marries her. Reina-Haya and Shmuel Bergman raise a family and return to Danzig shortly before...