Yakov Bok, the repairman, will be forced to be something more than a factotum, will have to fix his own life. Fed up with his fruitless existence, he is looking for a better future in Kiev, far from the isolation he poses for himself as a freethinker and reader of Spinoza, the Jewish community. He soon gets a job, after saving his life to a drunken anti-Semite, but in the time of Tsar Nicholas II and with a more and more tangible pogrom, he is forced not to reveal his Jewish identity. However, after the murder of a Russian boy, too close to his job, they point out to him as the perpetrator of the crime. There will be no shortage of witnesses, evidence and accusations aimed at condemning him, in an era of great anti-Semitic virulence. The repairman, the most acclaimed novel by Bernard Malamud and for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, is an intense account of how the idea of ​​freedom grows in the consciousness of a man subjected to terrible injustice. Based on a real case, the play dramatizes that desire for justice of a character who does not flinch before his own innocence. This novel, painfully plausible and absolutely moving, is also a great allegory of the holocaust.