Arthur, Rose, and Joe, three fruits of their parents' tree of life. Will Arthur remain near the roots or roll into the distance? Will Joe hang from a branch in the fear of where he may fall? Will Rose mature slowly to oversee the fate of the others? The Feldmans is a trilogy about orthodox Jewish immigrant siblings who put their personal desires and family traditions on the line in their quest for love and matrimony in the Brownsville section of 1920s Brooklyn.