A close-knit congregation fractures along gender lines after a catastrophe at their synagogue in this nicely observed, feel-good feminist film. Beginning with a bar mitzvah and culminating with a wedding, the story centers on a community of lively and relaxed Sephardic Jews who enjoy coming together as a community and revere their elderly spiritual leader, Rabbi Menashe. But when the titular balcony collapses during a bar mitzvah the rabbi's wife is severely injured. The rabbi, already in poor health, can't cope with the disaster.

Lacking a place of worship as well as the services of an ordained religious leader, the men of the congregation are thrilled when the charismatic, ultra-orthodox seminarian Rabbi David helps them make a minyan. But Rabbi David's rigid style of religious observation doesn't sit so well with their wives.

"There are serious issues at stake here, but the director and the screenwriter, Shlomit Nechama, take a gentle, humorous approach... It's primarily a very human and funny story of how repression can come with a seductive face." Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post