This work suggests the portrayal of
Queen Esther, a beautiful maiden who was taken to the King’s palace. She is
very beautiful and yet, very sad. An orphan raised by her uncle, Mordechai,
young Esther was taken as a beautiful virgin to Persian King Ahasuerus, who
loved her “above all women” and made her the Persian Empire’s Queen. When she learned of the scheme to eradicate
the Jews, Esther understood that she had a mission and that she could shape
reality rather than passively suffer through it. Sher compares this historical
event to a current song, which is inscribed in this work in Hebrew – “The
Prettiest Girl in the Kindergarten,” by Yehonatan Geffen:

The prettiest girl in the kindergarten

Has the prettiest eyes in the kindergarten

When she smiles, I smile

When she's sad, I don't understand

how it's possible to be sad

when you are the prettiest girl

in the kindergarten