The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music (a cantor) who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings.

During their journey through Borough Park, Anjou finds that the neighborhood has a fair number of bakers with vocal talents as good as their knishes.

"They had groupies," he tells Anjou, a strong incentive for a chubby teenager in high school.

[1] The movie's original title was Chazz'n, after the profiled cantor's sobriquet "Chazzan Jack Mendelson."

Sol and Jacob were members of Moshe Koussevitzky's children's choir at Beth-El, and both were later presidents of the Cantors Assembly.