A survivor of Auschwitz, Saul Weissmann is 70 years old when a rabbi tells him that, according to Moses’ law, he is not Jewish. Since his whole family died in the camps, he is unable to prove the rabbi wrong, which leads Simone, who had been saving her virginity for the perfect Jewish man, to cancel their engagement.

Once persecuted for being Jewish, Saul now feels rejected by his own community. To his despair, the traumatizing news splits his personality in half, creating two diametrically opposed identities within himself, one Jewish, the other Catholic. They fight to take control of his mind and body. After a few agitated weeks in the hospital, he asks a priest to kill the Jew in him who he feels is responsible for all his pain: the camps, his failed loves and even his sexual impotency.

Desperate to find a husband because she is pregnant, Simone begs Saul to take her back so they can raise their child together. They finally get married, and when they circumcize their baby boy at home, the neighbor calls the police, accusing them of child abuse. When he is interrogated about his religion, Saul denies being Jewish. The police officer informs him that since he is not, he will have to be taken to jail.

With incisive, humorous and sometimes cruel language, Interdit blends comical, absurd and dramatic situations to present the fresh and unique account of a man’s difficult quest to find his identity. The result is both touching and hilarious.