Esta serie narra la vida y el viaje artístico de un pintor dotado que crece en una estricta comunidad jasídica. Su extraordinario talento es visto como una tentación y una amenaza para su fe, obligándolo a tomar decisiones difíciles entre su arte y la tradición. Seguimos sus luchas internas y externas, sus conflictos con la familia y la comunidad, y su búsqueda de identidad propia en la encrucijada de dos mundos. Las narrativas exploran temas de fe, arte, identidad y la compleja relación entre el judaísmo y el mundo exterior.
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.
Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever....