Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his pretty wife, Saamiya,
and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the
step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric'
from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he
drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will
appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place.
Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's
documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were
Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz. He conceals this
information from his family, and with the help of his neighbor, Leonard
Goldberg, tries to understand the Jews, their religion and even locates his
birth-father, who is on his death-bed in a nursing home. Mahmud does not
know that Arshad has been checking into his background, has videotaped him
setting fire to a Jewish cap during a protest, and has already approved of
him, despite of his letter to the media about 'moderate Muslims'. But on
the day of the meeting with Arshad and Uzma - Mahmud will find his life
drastically changed when the Police will attend to arrest him, and he will
be forced to publicly proclaim that he is Jewish - a move that will not
only alienate him from his family but both the Jewish and Muslim
communities.