A comicperformance by the famous Warsaw cabaret team Shimon Dzigan and Yisroel Shumacher provides a portraitof two schlemiels in a poor shtetl, struggling to eke out a living while cooking up strike-it-rich schemes.When Naftali, a mechanic, and his friend Kopl, a tailor, "strike oil" in a local field, the whole town buys intotheir dream with offers (including one from the local millionaire, who wants to invest) and schemes(including one by a visiting American to deprive them of their new asset). Meanwhile, Naftali hopes to sealthe new partnership with a kiss-between his daughter and Kopl's son-while his wife plots to marry thesame hapless daughter off to the American. And that's just the beginning of a comedy of errors spiraling offfrom dire straights. "The shtetl is synonymous with exploitation in this impressively bleak comedy" (J.Hoberman).