Two traditional families are tested by an unlikely friendship.
Lansky and Ali are best friends always justifying their relationship to others. Lansky, born and raised in Brooklyn to second generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants while Ali was born in Yemen to traditional parents, but moved to Brooklyn at the age of nine Americanizing him drastically. Both have different views on the world, dissimilar traditions and customs and disagreeing on many things. However, both share the same lazy tendencies that frequently find them at the same place, their apartment building’s front stoop. Moishe, Lansky’s guilt-ridding father, vehemently disapproves of his son’s friendship. Moishe’s wife, Miriam, is much more tolerant defending her son’s friendship often. Dovid is Lansky’s younger brother and takes after his father’s bigotry. Lansky’s little sister, Sarah, takes after her mother seeing past the discrimination. Ali’s father, Najie, refuses to accept Lansky, his family or anyone that doesn’t’t share his Middle-Eastern roots. Noore, Ali’s mother, is subservient, quiet and won’t dare talk to her husband in the company of others. American born, Jameela is desensitized to her family’s native traditions but indulges her father conducting herself within customary expectations. The two culturally opposite families actually live across the hall to each other in a six-story Brooklyn apartment building. Justifying their friendship to others is an ordinary everyday occurrence for Lansky and Ali but today is different as their fathers’ react similarly handing out ultimatums to their sons.
