Rectify Ruchel recounts her childhood in early-1930s Poland where she lives with her Jewish parents in a small village. One day, a police officer and member of the fascist National Radical Camp comes to see her mother, who is known as being able to see the future, to inquire whether his marriage proposal will be successful. Ruchel, who has been taught by her mother, sees that she will reject him but her mother lies that she cannot see in order to not make him angry. The family burns all their books about seeing the future and books a trip of a steamer to emigrate. Ruchel sees their plan fail in a vision but her parents don't believe her and before they can leave, the officer returns and arrests her parents because he believes her mother cursed him to be rejected...