Hannah, nicely played by Victoria Mack, has been married to a much older man and is living in a small apartment in the Me’ah She’arim district of Jerusalem. Her ex-husband, Zvi, a successful author well acted by Ian Kahn, visits her unexpectedly to talk about their son, who is to marry a religious young woman. Sparks flare between them. The problem with Zvi’s character is that he seems to be somewhat of a jerk, with emotional highs and lows and not very concerned for Hannah’s feelings. In a moment of rekindled passion they have sex. Can you guess what the result will be?

As the play progresses, Hannah’s husband dies. Now Hannah approaches Zvi to tell him she really loves him and wants to get together again. However, it turns out that she is pregnant (big surprise!) and Zvi suspects that may be her reason to remarry him. Hannah protests otherwise and convincingly pleads with him to accept her.

But Zvi is the kind of intolerant person who cannot respect another’s faith and insists that Hannah completely abandon hers as a condition for marriage. Because of the egotistical, arrogant type that he is, his demand seems to come as much from being a control freak as from any deep principle. Despite the strong performance by Kahn, I grew completely impatient with Zvi as depicted by the playwright. I had more affinity with Hannah, although, despite Mack’s good acting, the entire dance between these two warring characters doesn’t seem convincing.