Set in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Brighton Beach during the 1980’s, this contemplative coming-of-age/coming-out story follows the soul-searching journey of David, a closeted gay Yeshiva student who moves in with his grandfather in the subsidized housing of a Jewish religious center where he becomes the tenth man in a Jewish quorum called a minyan.  Accompanied by a klezmer-infused jazz score, the two worlds of David’s dual identity collide as he confronts the plagued heritages experienced by his elderly gay couple next door (who survived the Holocaust) and a bartender from an East Village gay bar (who is trying to survive the escalating AIDS epidemic.) Samuel H. Levine carries the film in the lead role of David -- every bit as beautiful as the statue in Italy -- through whose soulful and smoldering eyes we witness the importance of community support in an unjust world.