Beautiful, charming, materialistic yesheva girl Delilah Goldberg steps into a life she never could have imagined when in a moment of panic she marries sincere, albeit mediocre rabbinical student, Chaim Levi. He is unable to provide her with a house, no less the charmed life for which she longs. But when Chaim accepts the position of rabbi in an affluent, demanding and hypocritical Connecticut congregation, Delilah is lead into a vortex of shocking choices which spiral out of control as she fights seductions of the modern world.