Argentina, 1976. The military junta is waging war on its people: mass arrests, brutal torture, extrajudicial executions and secret abductions. Every day people disappear without a trace. However, the Jew Kadish Poznan corrects reality in his own way: through his efforts, it is not the living who disappear, but the dead - unworthy ancestors, whose names he is tasked with knocking off cemetery tombstones at night, so as not to disgrace decent members of the Jewish community. But one day his own son disappears. In desperation, parents turn to the Ministry of Special Affairs. Here, those who have lost hope of finding their missing relatives rush through the Kafkaesque corridors of power. Balancing on the edge of drama and grotesquery, Nathan Englander shows the tragedy of an entire people in the history of one family.