Let Shadows Be: once an adage to aid the correct exposure of black and white film, but here it becomes a broader maxim for Jakob Wolfsheime, a young Jewish architect and keen photographer struggling with autism and against the anti semitism of eastern Germany in the 1930s. Fleeing with his Leica to New York in 1937 as Jacob Wolf, he discovered that the American Dream was not the comfortable refuge he imagined and struggles to come to terms with a new reality, its reflection in the photographic image and his own troubled mind. The journey through the years of Leica serial number 128952, a study of photography as well as man's obsessive nature in relating to objects during one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.