She was an obedient daughter who speaks about her parents with great respect, admiring their dedication to their religious observance and wanting to live a life of which they approved.
Although he had been raised in a Catholic church, McCoy undertook the long conversion process to enter the Jewish faith.
Instead of joining the married couple in celebration, her uncle sat shiva, a Jewish mourning ritual that typically accompanies a funeral.
The documentary explores how conflicts due to their diverging cultural backgrounds, were constantly emerging, despite McCoy's conversion.
While Belle insisted on keeping a kosher home so her parents could eat at her house, McCoy would forget and mix up the meat and milk pots.