Kaaterskill Falls

In the summer of '76， the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill， the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman， a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters， is restless. She needs a project of her own， outside her family and her cloistered community. Across the street， Andras Melish is drawn to Kaaterskill by his adoring older sisters， bound to him by their loss and wrenching escape from the Holocaust. Both comforted and crippled by his sisters' love， Andras cannot overcome the ambivalence he feels toward his children and his own beautiful wife. At the top of the hill， Rav Kirshner is coming to the end of his life， and he struggles to decide whi