![The Railway Man](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/yuADLCxGCA5rFWk2QDXvX5plBrD.jpg)
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.