This story is set in the kitchen of the house of Golda Goldberg, a Jewish bubbe (grandmother), as her granddaughter arrives with a friend for lunch. When Golda encourages the teens to develop a sense of activism and go with her to a protest later that day, they refuse and express their disbelief that anything will ever change. Their feelings of powerlessness inspires Golda to tell them tales of her life as a partisan during the Holocaust. 

This is also the tale of a chicken named Mendel Chaim.