An accusation ignites a city and a Jew is executed, yet the accusers’ fury is not satisfied. Instead, a terrifying ultimatum is delivered: surrender a man in hiding, or the community’s leaders will pay with their lives. With no court, no protection, and no way out, the clock begins to run. Set in early seventeenth-century Poland and drawn from a true case, this story forces an impossible question with no clean answers. You are the judge. How does it end?
