A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? will unveil - for the first time onscreen - the signing of the Transfer Agreement, one of the most dramatic and controversial agreements of the 20th century. Signed a few months after the Nazi party's rise to power in 1933, this agreement permitted German Jews to emigrate to Palestine and retain part of the value of the property they left behind. The agreement, through which tens of thousands of Jews fled Germany, remained in effect until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.