A story about the relationships between slightly different, yet very close peoples living side by side in the village of Anatovka. The old village of Anatovka is inhabited by Russians, Ukrainians, and Jews. They worked and lived together, unaware of poverty and sorrow, except that when it came time to die, everyone went to their separate cemeteries… Such was the custom! The Russians always had a priest. The Jews had a rabbi. Very wise people, by the way… And in the cheerful village of Anatovka lived Motale the tailor, Stepan the carpenter, Fedka the scribe, and a milkman named Tevye-Tevly. The Jews called him Tevye, the Russians called him Tevly. And it so happened that he had five daughters, two cows, and one horse... Essentially, this play is a tragedy about the complex fate of the Jews who were forced to leave their homes and depart from the Russian village. A tragedy of both one family and an entire nation. However, none of the characters lost their identity, faith in themselves, or love for those around them amidst all this horror. This production is simultaneously unbearably funny and lyrically sad: the soul is torn by longing and an overwhelming sense of pity and absolute empathy for each character.