A Farewell Letter

​At an old wooden table in his small apartment in Noting Hill, Richard Duncan McNulty (84) sits down like every Sunday morning reading the newspaper peacefully from back to back, sipping a warm cup of tea. But today is going to be different, a knock on his door will threaten to shake his existence and change his life forever.

Mirka, new to the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish world, makes her way from the back of a gender-segregated bus to the front, to save her celiac son Raphael from a cookie containing gluten. This simple act constitutes a challenge to the conventions of the society in which Mirka lives and to which she tries to belong.