A melodrama shot by a Jewish producer from Riga that narrates the misfortunes of a young student under Tsarist rule. She lost her parents in the Kishinev pogrom and now studies in Riga, where the police decide to pick on her: she does not have the right to residence so she must register as a prostitute. She is arrested by mistake, loses her mind, and dies, despite the actions of her boyfriend who gets her out of prison. Semion Mintus, owner of one of the largest theaters in Riga (Le Colisée), founded a distribution company in 1909 that covered the Baltic regions of the empire. He produced many films on Jewish subjects from 1912 to 1913: The Talmudist, Leiba the Cobbler, The Jewish Spark, The Wedding Day, Listen, Israel. The story supposedly circulated as a form of “film-play”: a few actors behind the screen acted out repeat performances of it. In 1913, the story was made for the screen in Odessa by Miron Grossman (Studio Mirograf).