The film tells the story of a woman named Ronit (Weisz) who returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to
a childhood friend Esti (McAdams).
Ronit (Rachel Weisz) was raised in that devoutly religious community, and then shunned for her attraction to
childhood friend Esti (Rachel McAdams).
Not exact matches
She's been gone so long she had no idea that Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), taken in by her father as a protégé at 13, and
Esti, her
childhood friend (Rachel McAdams) have gotten married.
The reasons for Ronnie's departure are ambiguous at first, though it's clear that many years have passed, as she's stunned to learn that her father's protégé, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), and her
childhood best
friend,
Esti (Rachel McAdams), have been married for years.
Ronit (Weisz) is so secular that she once had an affair with a congregant named
Esti (Rachel McAdams), now — how's this for a coincidence — married to Ronit's
childhood friend Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), also the late rabbi's former pupil, and the congregation's pick to replace him.
Yet the biggest jolt comes when she sees
Esti (McAdams), her
childhood best
friend, now married to Dovid.
But she also rediscovers her feelings for
Esti, played by Rachel McAdams, the
childhood friend who's now married to the rabbi who became her father's spiritual disciple.
«For also in attendance is her and Dovid's other
childhood friend,
Esti (a sublime Rachel McAdams)-- and
Esti is now Dovid's wife.
Weisz plays Ronit, who was exiled from her community for her same - sex desires, while McAdams stars as
Esti, the
childhood friend with whom those desires were first explored.
The spitting occurs during a long love scene between Ronit (Weisz) and
Esti (McAdams), two
childhood friends turned one - time (well, now two - time) secret lovers who were raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in London.
The film also features Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola as
Esti and Dovid, Ronit's
childhood friends whom she discovers are married upon her return.
Back home in Hendon, Ronit reunites with
Esti (Rachel McAdams), with whom she once shared an intense but complicated romantic bond, and Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), a buttoned - up
childhood friend who married
Esti.
As we move deeper in, it's discovered Ronit was actually shunned by her father and the community because she and her
childhood friend,
Esti (McAdams), shared an undeniable attraction that they acted on.