Go Down to Silence

Jacob Horowitz a worn and bitter business tycoon has never spoken to anyone about his experience of Nazi persecution during World War II -- not even his recently deceased wife Liza. Suddenly stricken with terminal cancer the aging Jew receives an invitation from his old friend Pierre a Gentile Christian and former Belgian underground operative to pay him one last visit in Belgium. Jacob accepts and determines to take along his estranged son Isaac. In this fast-paced vivid historical account set alternately in war-torn Europe and todays United States the consequences of war become clear. Momentous events push the hardened Horowitz toward reconciliation with his youngest son with his past with God and with himself.