Isaac Steinhouse is born and educated in Austria. He meets Bertha and marries her, and they go to live in Germany. He is taken prisoner and sent to a forced labor camp, from which he manages to escape and makes his way to Britain. With assistance from the Red Cross and the Jewish Federation he travels with his wife and son to America, and they participate in the war effort. He joins the American forces and is sent to the war zone. His family grows up and goes to work. Their son, Davi, marries a Catholic girl, so Isaac disowns him. Davi excels in the tile industry– manufacture and sales. He accepts an invitation to open a branch of the American tile factory in Brazil. He takes his wife and his brother to Brazil and helps Joseph establish his own bakery there.