Sol Nazerman is a pawnbroker in a run down part of New York City near 126th St. The locals for the most part get loans of a dollar or two for small items and Sol makes most of his money laundering cash for a local gangster, Rodriguez. As an important anniversary approaches, Sol begins to have flashbacks to the time he and his family were arrested by the Nazis and put in a concentration camp. Life in the neighborhood is rough with small-time hoods stealing goods and then pawning them. When they learn of the cash payments Sol receives from Rodriguez, they decide to rob him. As his flashbacks bring him ever more grief, Sol rebels.—garykmcd