Leopold Plotkin, a mid­dle-aged kosher butch­er, has a patho­log­i­cal aver­sion to con­flict. But when he is accuse of crimes against the Repub­lic, he is indict­ed by a secret blind jury, impris­oned in the noto­ri­ous Pur­ga­to­ry House of Deten­tion, pros­e­cut­ed by an uneth­i­cal nar­cis­sist, and tried before an unwa­ver­ing pro-pros­e­cu­tion judge, defend­ed only by a reclu­sive attor­ney who has nev­er been inside a court­room. Every­one, includ­ing Plotkin, is cer­tain he will be convicted.

A humor­ous satire of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, Some­thing Is Rot­ten in Fet­tig tra­vers­es a series of Jew­ish vignettes across fic­tion­al land­scapes rem­i­nis­cent of the Old Coun­try and the Low­er East Side.