Belfast's Jewish community has nearly got a new recruit, but with the synagogue in sight, God and Ivan have different plans.

Ivan develops a bad cough and ends up in a cemetery with the doctor.

When 20 Belfast Jews on their way to a wedding in Dublin are stopped at a roadblock, Ivan thinks it's a joke. But the police are searching for terrorists, and they aren't laughing.

When the president of Belfast's Jewish community discovers that he has a reluctant Jew on his hands, he doesn't care whether Ivan is lapsed or the Chief Rabbi - it's numbers that count.

Ivan Fox, the Jewish widower who reluctantly moved from London to Belfast, continues to be surprised by the pressure he is under to rediscover his own faith. And just as he's settling into his new job a stranger calls into the factory demanding protection money.

Ivan Fox, manager of a small tobacco factory in north London, is reluctantly relocated to Northern Ireland's strife-torn capital. He sees himself as agnostic and assumes that he will be left alone, but the tiny Jewish community welcomes him in with such determination that he is pushed and pressured into embarking on a quest for his own faith.