"Set in New York during the height of World War II, this video recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man and his wife are mistaken. Slowly ostracized at home and work, they learn the value of self aand solidarity as they struggle to maintain dignity and find happiness."@en
"This story follows a Brooklyn man and his wife who become victims of mistaken identity at the height of World War II. Their bigoted community believes that they are Jews."
""More than anyone Arthur Miller has explored the American dream and found it wanting. In a country obsessed by virility and success, he depicts the unsuccessful, the weak and those who barricade themselves from the world in despair. He shows too, and never more chillingly than in Focus, how the solid-seeming citizenry can turn so easily into a brutal mob."--Back cover."
""A searing portrait of racism and redemption in the streets and alleys of Brooklyn during the final days of World War II"--Page 4 of cover."@en
"The seemingly innocuous purchase of a new pair of glasses changes Mr. Newman's appearance enough to alter the reactions of his once accepting friends and neighbors in 1945 New York City."@en
"The seemingly innocuous purchase of a new pair of glasses changes Mr. Newman's appearance enough to alter the reactions of his once accepting friends and neighbors in 1945 New York City."