The life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway's biggest stars under producer Florenz Ziegfield. While she was cheered onstage as a great comedian, offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved.

Berlin 1936. A hidden 7-year-old Roma refugee is discovered by the Nazis as they cleanse the streets of "undesirables".