A Gamble in Souls

Seeto Marjaani tells the story of a young woman named Seeto who was married to an elderly man and how her dreams and goals were shattered in a flash.

While trying to push away a little boy who keeps coming near his cottage at the river, a whimsical mayor meets boy's mother. These people find hard to make contacts because of their own trouble marks from the past, even though they know that the common effort is needed for the future and survival.

Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.

When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts her and she grows up to be an adventurous youngster of the docks. One evening years later, she boards a fishing boat to break up a poker game and extricate the husband of a weeping woman, and she is taken prisoner by Capt. Burt Kincaid, who tries to force his attentions on her, but when she proves her courage, he admires and comes to love her. When it is discovered that she is the daughter of the Hamptons, a wealthy family, Kit becomes a woman of fashion but longs for her former life and Captain Burt. Soon it is revealed that she is not a member of the Hampton family but only a daughter of their former maid, and she happily returns to Burt.