Set against the historically accurate backdrop of the liberation of the Concentration Camp at Dachau, THE CLAY MESSIAH explores our fragile realities and the power of hope. After months on the battlefields of France and Germany, Daniel, an American soldier, is unprepared for the shock of witnessing the inhumanity contained within the walls of a concentration camp. Daniel befriends Avrum, a teenage survivor equally ill-equipped for his sudden "freedom." Natalie, an overtaxed American nurse attached to the Army Evacuation Hospital sent to the camp, forms a bond with both young men. The trio is threatened by Vladik, Avrum's overzealous protector. Under Nazi rule, Avrum had depended on Vladik's golem-like qualities, but after the liberation the benefit of Vladik's protection becomes a liability and eventually a danger.