Make Me Man is about a Russian immigrant family where the husband (and a father) is trying to prove his manhood, his ability to control the hardship the family is facing. Upon arrival to Brooklyn, USA, thew father and the son are forced to look for work. Trying to 'make a man' out of his son, the father takes him along to the daily laborer location. Shortly, an orthodox Jew, who need his pool washed, drives in. The father suspects the employer tries to molest his son at the poolside, but when they get home it turns otherwise.