You take strangers for a while, but you give yours and for good.

And five hundred years ago in Italy they borrowed money. Only the conditions for the debtor were very harsh.

One Venetian merchant, Antonio, borrowed money from a usurer for his friend. It was agreed that in case of non-payment the usurer would cut out a pound of meat from the merchant's body.

The moneylender Shylock hates the merchant, who many times undeservedly insulted and humiliated him. Yes, he has a different religion, but he is a man like his abuser. So he offered Antonio such a deal.

The merchant ships are wrecked. He can not repay the debt. All hope for friends.

The favorite daughter of Shylock runs away from her father and marries one of the friends of the merchant-offender. She changed the faith of the fathers to the faith of her fiance. Shylock suffers immensely.

Reconcile with the merchant will make him not his own desire, but circumstances.

The court session will confirm Shailock's legal right to fulfill the terms of the transaction. Friends Antonio, dressed in costumes as judges, accuse Shylock of attempting the life of one of them.

In fear, the moneylender loses half his fortune and forgives Antonio.

The play about the confrontation between two strong personalities - Antonio and Shylock.

Centuries are coming, and people are still irreconcilable to each other because of color, religion or nationality.