The film centers on a man-made object – a book in the form of a sacred scroll – and the people of the book: those who make it, those who cherish and live by it, those who doubt it, those who reject it. It's a film for everyone who has touched or been touched by the themes and stories of the Old Testament. The Torah contains the teachings given by God to Moses. Hand-scribed Hebrew characters on parchment panels, sewn into a continuous roll, it is housed in the Holy Ark, dressed in velvet, brought out for chanting and celebration. A journey of creation and deliverance, our film follows the making of a new Torah in Israel and its deliverance to Hawaii's Big Island. More attuned to the Aloha spirit than the rigors of Hasidic life, the tiny Jewish community there is led by Ultra-orthodox Rabbi Avraham Chazanow. Young, energetic and stressed, he's a fish intentionally out of water. With his wife and four young children, he moved to shape a community for Island Jews. Among their issues: they don't own a Torah and they need one. We capture the making of their scroll, an astonishing process: thousands of ancient regulations, a dozen workers, including Palestinian Arabs operating "flesh machines" to transform the skins of 62 calves into silky white parchment. Our scribe begins a year of intense, hand-breaking labor with turkey-feather quills: 304,805 Hebrew letters, no two touching. Inspectors pore through the manuscript for days. Interwoven with the scroll's journey are stories of the Torah, centering on eternal questions of holiness. A Berlin tech-artist creates a robot that writes a flawless Torah: but is holiness about perfection or human passion? Jewish women at the Western Wall, not permitted to pray with the Torah, militate against ancient restrictions: did God give the Torah to men only? A messianic Jew wraps a Baptist pastor in a Torah scroll, anointing him as King: is this celebration or desceration? Religious leaders, scholars, historians of all stripes weigh in. "We love the Torah," an Episcopalian vicar says. "There's nothing in the New Testament that didn't come out of it." But, according to an Imam at a Texas mosque: "While we believe Moosa did receive God's words, today's Torah is changed, corrupted. This book is unclean." An expert on the Dead Sea scrolls contends: "Documents prove the Torah changed. If somebody wants to credit that to Satan, that’s their right." We return to the Big Island as the Torah arrives. Dressed in a cloak of velvet, topped with a silver crown, it’s paraded through the streets in joyful celebration. But, in the end, will the Kona Torah pull together Rabbi Avraham's offbeat Jewish community -- help them keep God's word for another generation -- or will it sit silently, unattended, in its magnificent Hawaiian Ark?