With Kadosh, Amos Gitai completes this trilogy about the human landscapes of three major Israeli cities. Here he examines Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem neighborhood that guards itself and its ultra-Orthodox inhabitants from the flow of contemporary urban life and tourist populations. Meir and Rivka have been married for ten years, but because they have no children the rabbi considers their marriage unconsummated. He decides that Meir must repudiate Rivka and marry another woman in order to have children. The protagonists become increasingly trapped between their feelings of love and the dictates of religious law. Critic Kay Armatage has called this film "controversial, rigorous, and profoundly questioning . . . a potentially explosive exploration of religious extremism and patriarchal repression."