JACOB AND JULIA BLOCH HAVE A PROBLEM ? SEVERAL PROBLEMS, IN FACT. While they?ve been coaxing Jacob?s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage. As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East, where...