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Twenty years have passed
since Joseph left behind his entire life-his wife Rebecca,
his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming
community where he grew up-when he fell in love with a man,
the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over,
but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of
Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none of them
could have predicted.
Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have
his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend
the Sabbath with him in the Tel Aviv penthouse that he shares
with a man-who is conveniently out of town that weekend. This
will be the first time Joseph and all his sons will be together
in nearly two decades.
The boys' lives have taken
widely varying paths. While some have become extremely religious,
another is completely cosmopolitan and secular, and their
feelings toward their father range from acceptance to bitter
resentment. As they prepare for this reunion, Joseph, his
sons, and even Rebecca, must confront what was, what is, and
what could have been.
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