Sol Mayer, waiting for take-off clearance for his Boeing 737 flight from Boston to New York, does not yet know that this flight is to change his life: the attractive rabbi, star preacher of Yaakov Temple, the big synagogue on Fifth Avenue, falls desperately in love with the woman in the seat next to him, a singer in a small band. Thus his already somewhat troubled life acquires an added complication. He can no longer turn a blind eye to the crisis in his marriage with Naomi, heiress to a fortune, to whom he owes his social and material prestige. And the liberal-thinking rabbi's public attacks against orthodox Hassidic Jews have brought him some powerful enemies. Above all, however, his murky past in which Sol the roué and never-do-well rebelled against his powerful father comes back sharply into focus. It was only through a miracle that the young man, at the time an unbeliever, decided to follow in his deceased father's footsteps and become a rabbi. A miracle – or the delirium of his alcohol-fuddled brain? A question which has caused Sol metaphysical torment ever since. A series of turbulent and disturbing events force him to embark on a hallucinatory journey which takes him back once more onto his father's trail – a journey stranger than he could possibly have imagined.