Here's the story so far: we're introduced to two people at a friend's wedding, each with a different perspective on the situation at hand. The groom's table becomes an AA meeting for the single friends, moderated by the Groom himself, while the Girl's side is rife with gossip and complaining (not sure, let me know if this should be fixed)
They cross paths at some point, whether by look or by Matchmaker. Either way, they quickly reject the other maybe? Or they immediately don't see the good in the other's profile or pictures, so they ignore each other's profiles?
EIther way, the Matchmaker meets the two of them individually and learns about their personalities, including the boy's connection to his past through certain stringencies for boys against touching girls, and the girl's dreams of the perfect guy, each of their poems collide, with the final verses mirroring each other. Then she sets them up with completely different people (opposites attract, so in essence I'm putting them on their right track).
It fails miserably, leading to the girl's absolute disdain for the system and Matchmaker's soliloquy about how she's a messenger of G-d, not G-d (if you had it planned all from the start, why bother breaking these poor kids' hearts? What are you a sadist, a backbreaking savage, that controls all of this, are you getting the jist, of my issues at hand, yet you stand there, you stand, away from our problems like we're supposed to solve it!).
She arrives at her apartment, disgusted by the fact that she had to spend money on a taxi (you never know with the terrors abound in the A train), and bumps into the boy. They share a glance and continue on their way.
It fails miserably, leading to the girl's absolute disdain for the system and Matchmaker's soliloquy about how she's a messenger of G-d, not G-d (if you had it planned all from the start, why bother breaking these poor kids' hearts? What are you a sadist, a backbreaking savage, that controls all of this, are you getting the jist, of my issues at hand, yet you stand there, you stand, away from our problems like we're supposed to solve it!).
She arrives at her apartment, disgusted by the fact that she had to spend money on a taxi (you never know with the terrors abound in the A train), and bumps into the boy. They share a glance and continue on their way.
Sooner or later, one of the girl's friends sets her up with a complete mess, backfiring and lowering the girl's self-esteem all in one accidental mess.
The boy doesn't get it any better. The girl he's set up with by a stranger is an absolute misfire (why did I decide to do this? Leave my safe open too long, the bandits will strip it, etc...)
The boy doesn't get it any better. The girl he's set up with by a stranger is an absolute misfire (why did I decide to do this? Leave my safe open too long, the bandits will strip it, etc...)
Then, the Matchmaker, in a Tevye like fashion, sets them up with the perfect match- two totally different people that had been in the background the entire time with the two of them.
They could never be happier. Yet disaster strikes to the boy. She breaks it off for no good reason, leading to him questioning everything (...). The Shadchan presses her for answers, but she barely can answer.
As for the girl, she starts asking herself if he's the one, while the boy, in a drunken stupor, asks if she was the one.
As for the girl, she starts asking herself if he's the one, while the boy, in a drunken stupor, asks if she was the one.
The girl brings up to her date that she wants to go even more serious, yet the boy becomes an absolute mess. After talking with a Rabbi one Sunday, he learns the idea of "we're never ready for what we have yet to get".
As he hears a massive commotion down the street, near his apartment, he sees that the girl he had seen before just got engaged (She escaped!). After her friends leave, she hears something upstairs, reminiscent of a song she had sung before (is he/ was she the one requiem), where he's asking her, through the floor, if she really is happy with a guy. She asks for clarification, but he just tirades about how marriage stinks and how our religion makes it this way (Judaism is a bad sale).
She answers that it takes a commitment to one another that makes it special. She talk-sings the requiem for how he's the angel she's always dreamed about. He asks if she really told her secrets, and lets loose on himself about how he always gives them away (the treasure map).
She answers that it takes a commitment to one another that makes it special. She talk-sings the requiem for how he's the angel she's always dreamed about. He asks if she really told her secrets, and lets loose on himself about how he always gives them away (the treasure map).
She finally answers with the fact that when they're older, nothing will change. You'll still want grand-children (legacy is the fancy word for reproduction success), you'll still want them to stay in the faith, you'd be miserable if they went down the path you've been taught to avoid.
In the end, they go their separate ways, him in a constant search for meaning, while she walks down an aisle.
That is, until we skip to when he meets someone at that girl's wedding that also doesn't understand the matchmaking process (Judaism is a bad sale requiem). They talk for months afterward and the boy, older and wiser, is able to make his own decisions and get down on a knee, despite the fact that the two of them have less friends than they'd hope (there's elbow room at the engagement).
As the engagement period commences, we hear the boy call up the girl asking for advice (the worst is yet to come) on how to plan the wedding (like the wedding song from Journeys).
After a frantic 3 months, everything is ready. He walks down the aisle, and the main crux of the whole story begins. (The Veil in the Void). The room darkens and no one else is there. He stares into a void, a dark space where every one of his failures comes back to haunt him.
Then a light appears, in the shape of a white veil. He sees something he's never seen before, something holier than anything he could have imagined. Beyond time and space, beyond everything- he finds the other part of his soul. As they merge into one being, OUR STORY CONCLUDES.
In the end, they go their separate ways, him in a constant search for meaning, while she walks down an aisle.
That is, until we skip to when he meets someone at that girl's wedding that also doesn't understand the matchmaking process (Judaism is a bad sale requiem). They talk for months afterward and the boy, older and wiser, is able to make his own decisions and get down on a knee, despite the fact that the two of them have less friends than they'd hope (there's elbow room at the engagement).
As the engagement period commences, we hear the boy call up the girl asking for advice (the worst is yet to come) on how to plan the wedding (like the wedding song from Journeys).
After a frantic 3 months, everything is ready. He walks down the aisle, and the main crux of the whole story begins. (The Veil in the Void). The room darkens and no one else is there. He stares into a void, a dark space where every one of his failures comes back to haunt him.
Then a light appears, in the shape of a white veil. He sees something he's never seen before, something holier than anything he could have imagined. Beyond time and space, beyond everything- he finds the other part of his soul. As they merge into one being, OUR STORY CONCLUDES.