My Yiddish Momme McCoy addresses the prejudices the couple faced and the challenges that their divergent cultures presented them.
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.
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.