The director is straight, the writer is female, and the story is about a married ultra-Orthodox Jewish father and butcher falling for a young man studying in yeshiva. (Only after reading a recent NYT article did I realize that some men are paid to just study the Torah in Israel.)
The story is that both are closeted, but the proclivities of the young man are a spreading rumor in this very conservative community.
Some social commentary in the film interview with the director is that in Israel the ultra-Orthodox are having many babies while the secular Jews are having few. In the future will Israel become more extremely conservative? This perhaps does not bode well for gays even though thankfully they do have civil marriage in Israel today.
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