Ser­ach Gottes­man — the ambi­tious, sen­si­tive, math­e­mat­i­cal­ly-gift­ed, fierce­ly child-free daugh­ter of a Hare­di fam­i­ly from Boro Park, Brook­lyn — has spent two decades in lov­ing part­ner­ship with Palo­ma Rodriguez — a daz­zling, rebel­lious Lati­na nurse from the South Bronx. Both women have sac­ri­ficed vital rela­tion­ships and cul­tur­al prac­tices for their bond. Each feels occa­sion­al blasts of long­ing for what she has lost, while find­ing com­fort in the joy of the part­ner­ship and in the few com­mu­ni­ty ties still avail­able to her. In 2020 — with the world’s rules explod­ing — this suc­cess­ful­ly icon­o­clas­tic pair sud­den­ly begins look­ing less like a threat than a mod­el of resilience, and a group of unmoored rel­a­tives and friends begin land­ing on their doorstep. Oblig­ed to deal with one anoth­er, the mem­bers of this mot­ley crew begin evolv­ing and bond­ing on their own. And Ser­ach and Palo­ma? Evi­dent­ly, they were des­tined to be matri­archs all along. They just need­ed to invent the right fam­i­ly. Acts of Accep­tance—a tale of expec­ta­tions turned upside down, and imag­i­na­tions run wild.