The film, part of which is told through a series of flashbacks, follows the story of Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), a charismatic patient of a fictitious Psychiatric hospital for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. Adam was a comedian in Berlin prior to the World War II, during which he was sent to a Nazi concentration camps. Adam manages to survive the war only because his pre-war act was recalled by an Schutzstaffel officer (Willem Dafoe), who takes Adam as his "pet," insisting he act like a dog (as he did during one of his sketches). His humiliation was his ticket to survival, as he was even forced to play the fiddle as his wife and daughter were led to the gas chambers. While he is outwardly charming and witty, Adam is tormented by Survivor guilt and delusions that he is a dog.<ref name="nytimes" /><ref name="laweekly" /><ref name="latimes" /><ref name="avclub" />
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