Plot: Mild mannered forty year old Sheldon Kasner has just moved from the big city where he was working as a loan officer at Hebrew Loans Bank, a small bank specializing in loans to Jews, to the small town of Middletown. There, he, despite he having no experience, is determined to be part of the chevra kadisha, the men and women who prepare dead bodies for burial in the ancient Jewish tradition. He is up front to the three elderly men who form the chevra kadisha in Middletown - Marvin Telekunsky, Hy Leibowicz and Harry Epstein - that his want to do this work is to start his life anew after the reason he left his bank job: his recent discovery that the bank, owned and operated by the Lightman family, had long been used as a front to launder money for gangster, Sam Goldberg. Sheldon was implicated in the theft of $2 million of the bank and thus Sam's money and was almost killed by brothers Jake and Stuart Lightman until that money was found. However, Sheldon is not totally truthful in the story in its entirety, especially the ulterior and less than altruistic motive in wanting to do the work. Sheldon has to continue to work toward his end goal without Sam and the Lightmans finding out where he is, or Marvin, Hy and/or Harry finding out his true motivations. The fact of doing work for God with less than honorable intentions may come back to bite Sheldon in the process.
Alternative Plot: After a large sum of money disappears, an accountant (Rob LaBelle) must convince his brother and his boss that he is innocent.
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