A handsome Washington, D.C. physician and a New York woman fall in love at a silly time. . .after they become married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake can be a cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies however, not as stunned as when he could be told that, under an ancient Law, he is likely to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin's name.