When twenty-seven-year-old Ephraim returns to Toronto from rabbinical school in New York, he"s looking forward to launching his career and then someday finding a devout young woman who"ll be happy to become his rebbetzin. However, his Uncle Avram has a different order of events in mind and schemes to introduce him to gorgeous Rebecca, a fiery, anti-secularist, who"s founding a school with an emphasis on Jewish tradition. Despite her disapproval of Ephraim"s less rigid religious practices, Rebecca"s clearly interested in him romantically and she even invites him to join the faculty of her new school. Things appear to be going according to Uncle Avram"s plan...that is until Ephraim encounters Laura, a beautiful gentile who works at his mother"s shop. When he falls face-first in love with Laura, Ephraim is suddenly torn between the call of his heart, the expectations of his family, and the demands of a rabbinical career. Nightly, he finds himself in ghostly debate with a thundering...