As the Israelites begin building the Lord's Tabernacle, we are informed that God imbued those among them who labored in the construction of that most sacred edifice with "wisdom of the heart": Every "wise-hearted man," reads the parasha, "into whom God had imbued wisdom and insight to know how to do, shall do all the work of the service of the Holy."
A wise-hearted man, of course, is a paradox worthy of Chesterton.
Director Yurek Bogayevicz and other Polish crew and cast ground the story in the Polish countryside, while Haley Joel Osment as a Jewish boy made to pass for Gentile and Willem Dafoe as a tormented,
wise-hearted priest do an unusually fine job of blending in.