faith and mortality . view through the lens of an elderly ashkenazi jewish american gentleman and a young and african american jewish gentleman who waver between be at odds with each other and have frank talk about how their life have unfold over the year . mostel character be a tailor with chronic back problem and and a terminally ill wife while belafonte character be a career hustler and never settle on a regular job and and a fatal car accident leave him in an odd purgatory he must convince mostel to renew his faith and a it have be fail along with his wife health ( and his own ) . but belafonte levine have his own problem and still pin for the girlfriend he leave behind . belafonte character leave the film before he seemingly should and and so the the end be cryptic and and the film suffers somewhat from it ambiguous end . this be not a typical hollywood movie on ethnic relation or about a person crisis of faith . it be worth watch more than once and appreciate the excellent performance of the principal actor .