What happens when your family’s history gets in the way of your present-day love life? Shira and Maria are about to find out.

When Maria arrives in Israel from Germany to move in with Shira, her Jewish girlfriend of three months, she hasn’t even thought about proposing. But one misunderstanding later and the two are suddenly engaged. Enter Shira’s super talkative, very loud, overly emotional family. Two siblings, her parents—including familiar face John Carroll Lynch (The Trial of the Chicago 7, American Horror Story)—and her domineering grandmother, Berta, make for quite a mix of opinions. And volume. Before the two women can even decide whether or not they actually should be getting married, half the family is planning the wedding, while Berta is refusing to acknowledge the engagement at all. Because Jews and Germans don’t mix. They haven’t in the past, so there’s no way they can now. Right?

Writer/director Shirel Peleg uses a wide brush to blur the lines between comedy, family drama, and history lesson as the film’s younger characters must make way for their older relatives’ tucked-away-but-not-forgotten pain of the not-so-distant past. And even as Berta condemns her granddaughter’s union with a German, she must face the fact that her own biases may be keeping her from something wonderful—a sweet Palestinian doctor named Ibrahim—and that maybe two people who shouldn’t fit…sometimes just do.

~Georgia Beers