The story is about a jewish boy named Ehrich Weiss, he is 13 years old and was a messenger boy in the department store in New York. At a later of age of 16 Ehrich and his brothers worked long hours at any job they could find. From the department store, Ehrich moved to a necktie factory.
At the factory, Ehrich worked nine or ten hours a day. One of his brothers, Theo, had learned how to do a few tricks and taught them to Ehrich. Ehrich got inspired by it and read about magic trick books. He convinced his friend Jacob to leave to
One day he found a book that changed his life "The memoirs of Robert-Houdin". Soon after reading this book, Ehrich left the necktie factory and convinced Jacob to leave too and Ehrich changed his name into Harry Haudini. Ehrich wanted to make something of his life as a magician with Jacob and together they became the Brothers Haudini.