Adapted from Naomi Alderman’s 2006 award winning novel of the same name, Disobedience tells the story of Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz), a woman who has escaped the restrictive world in which she was raised and started afresh in New York. However, when her father passes away in the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon, North London, she is called upon to return home and honour his death.

Back in the confines of her former community, she feels awkward and out of place, and further discomfort arises when she learns her childhood friends Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) – her father’s favourite pupil and natural successor as Rabbi – and Esti (Rachel McAdams) are now a married couple. Indeed, Ronit’s shock at their relationship hints that something less than platonic is hanging over them.

Disobedience is a passionate story of repressed desire and religious duty