Esther, her father, a mohel (a man who performs circumcisions among Jews), the enigmatic Mendele, the infamous Leiser, the passionate Rafael, the faithful Morena, the thieving Gatinho. A small village in Poland, then to Paris, Buenos Aires and finally Porto Alegre. The water cycle closes like fate. The lives of wandering Jews who, in the end, converge with their faith, their history, and nothing else.
In the saga of the prostitute Esther, there are tragedies and small joys. Women who were brought from Europe under various pretexts to work as prostitutes in the cabarets of America, the continent that is a golden dream for some and a nightmare for others. With impeccable literary technique, Moacyr Scliar leads readers through distant, often harsh worlds, full of surprises, adventures, and misadventures. Faith in religion dissolves in the water cycle. This is a story depicting facets of the history of the Jewish people and its diaspora.
