11th of Av is a story of love, death and dreams set in 1914 in the often-besieged Galician town of Przemyśl, a fortress on the socially dynamic, multicultural frontier of Austria-Hungary.

It is the story of a tough, passionate, and optimistic generation – the flowering of eight centuries of Jewish life in Eastern Europe – who believed, despite overwhelming odds,  that they could build a better world.

It is also the story of the beginning of the end of Eastern Jewry. When an orgy of war topples Franz Josef’s Austro-Hungarian Empire, his Jewish subjects find themselves scattered and stateless, and compelled to carve out new lives in an unfamiliar and increasingly dangerous world.