Arthur Goldman is a 52 years old Jewish widower. He came in the USA as a refugee and in 20 years has become a wealthy and respected man. He appears powerful, arrogant and selfassured, but he has an obsession - he feels as he's watched. Israeli secret agents mistake him for Adolf Dorff, an S.S. colonel, torturer and killer. They arrest him and bring him to Israel. Goldman doesn't protest his innocence. He stands trial as if really were the Nazi officer and proudly talks about his immaginary crimes. Standing in a bullet-proof glass booth, wearing a Nazi uniform, he harangues the audience and the world and deliberately offends them, shakes them. But the Israelis have the wrong man. He is a Jew. He is Goldman. And he wants to be a martyr to show that hate does not help to overcome what has happened.

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Summary by Leonard:
The character's name is Goldman - alienated of course. It's a great piece of writing by Robert Shaw. The actor/author and me did it at the globe Theater in San Diego for, I guess, about a five week run. One of the most overwhelming experiences I have been through. The character is... in quite a special emotional condition, psychological condition, and ends up forcing the Israelis to capture him and take him to Israel and put him on trial as a war criminal which he actually wasn't. He was a prisoner in a concentration camp but he forces them to put him, he leads them to believe he was a commandant in a concentration camp. And they put him on trial. And he goes through this tremendous emotional scene which finally evolves into a catatonic breakdown - in the glass both. That's there for the title.