Two rabbinic students deal with questions of Jewish identity in different ways. Frank, whose student congregation is a cemetery, finds a family of so-called "conversos"--nominal Catholics whose families were converted forcibly during the Spanish Inquisition but secretly kept their now watered down Jewish rituals--in an East Harlem tenement going coop. Meanwhile, in a pilot project from the school, his roommate, another rabbinic student, is asked for definitive proof of his ethnicity.