In a new series now streaming on Netflix, a young Hasidic woman’s flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance by Shira Haas (from “Shtisel”), based on the memoir by Deborah Feldman.

One day, with cash and a few papers stashed in her waistband, she breaks the eruv wire that surrounds the Satmar Hasidic community where she lives. She catches a plane for Berlin, looking for the mother who herself fled the Satmars and her alcoholic husband when Esty was a child. Of course, Esty’s disappearance creates a scandal in the community, but what unfolds is a “story of personal discovery with the intensity of a spy thriller,” the New York Times said.