Yitzchak Austerlitz, a Holocaust survivor who lost his first wife and three children, visits Yad Vashem and collapses in a faint when he discovers a picture of the Nazi who tortured him and murdered his family. At the same time, on the other side of the world, in bustling, teeming Brazil, the strands of Jewish lawyer Jairo Silverman’s life become intertwined with the mysterious death of Mr. Alberto Hunkes, and with the secret that shrouds his son Eduardo.

In the Spider’s Web untangles the threads surrounding a secret Nazi organization as Divine providence orchestrates a drama that no one dared to dream of.