“What if you get the chance to save one per­son in your life­time. And what if you wast­ed it on your­self?”

It’s 1938 and a pogrom unlike any oth­er sends Yitzhak Lan­glebben on a reli­gious mis­sion through the shtetls of Poland. Work­ing with his great uncle, Yitzhak sets off on a jour­ney that forces him to leave every­one he knows and loves behind.

It’s 2010 and Jake Lan­g­ley finds him­self left with the bleak task of clean­ing out his recent­ly deceased father’s house. As he sorts through the detri­tus of his father Ike’s life, Jake comes across a list of names and places, all writ­ten in Ike’s hand. Jake soon real­izes what he has uncov­ered — rem­nants of a sto­ry his moth­er used to tell him when he was lit­tle.

Unbind­ing Isaac tells the tale of two young men: one dis­cov­er­ing that the world he’s known is for­ev­er chang­ing, the oth­er seek­ing des­per­ate­ly to know the man who raised him — two expe­ri­ences lived a life­time apart, yet inter­con­nect­ed by the shared lega­cy of sur­vival and loss.