The film presents the unifying power of a foodway through three main characters.

Hummus is pegged to three stories about hummus-related careers, a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew.

The Muslim is a woman named Suheila who runs a hummus restaurant in Acco and is known for her charity to the poor.

The Jew, a man from a secular background who has become devout, joined the Breslover sect, and now sells hummus at a food stall in a gas station in the Israeli town of Yokneam.

The segment features Yehoshua Sofer, a Jamaican-born rapper who had a hit Israeli pop song about hummus and influenced the Jewish hummus shop owner in Yokneam to become pious.