Aaron Herskowitz is a 5’2″ Jewish Czechoslovakian soldier who is brutally forced into slave labor to serve the Nazi army and their Hungarian fascist allies along the Russian front during World War II. He escapes to join the Russian army, for whom he becomes a hero and who reward him by installing him as ruler of a conquered Nazi town with virtually unlimited power. Along his journey, he saves the lives of countless thousands of Jewish slaves from certain death under Nazi tyranny.