Synopsis:

Six years ago Philip Sharpe was married with five children, an entrepreneur and messianic rabbi with 19 congregations across Europe. Then his marriage collapsed and in the wake of the breakup, God told Philip he was to become a Hebrew King, and like a good patriarch, take multiple wives. Now he raises horses, runs four second-hand furniture shops in Brighton and lives with seven women who, while not legally his spouses, believe their union is sanctioned by God. Each seeks a different sort of spiritual fulfilment: from Hava, widowed after 40 years of marriage and the oldest of the wives, to Tracy, who has been banished for resisting Philip's patriarchal role. As the film progresses, the filmmaker gets extraordinarily close to the family, but reserves his judgement, preferring to present them with all their foibles, strengths and contradictions.