For the Kahn family, the Promised Land is neither the Jerusalem of their forebears, nor the East End flat they live in now. They are part of a vibrant community whose dream of a better world is put to an exhilarating test in the anti-fascist riots of the 1930s.

Share in their lives across three decades, as a mother’s resilience contends with a father’s weakness and a family faces the challenges of history.