Every day, Henry watches a curious old man leave the crazy house near his apartment and disappear down the street. Henry is very curious about what the old man does but cannot follow him because he was on crutches, and still does not know how to use them. The day after his leg is healed, Henry follows the crazy man one day to an art center, where he meets him in person and learns his name is Mr. Levine and he is a Holocaust survivor who lost his family to the SS. He goes to the art center every day to carve out a model of his old hometown town to bring back all the people he had lost, including his wife and kids. Henry and Mr. Levine become very close despite not speaking the same language.