NOT JUST THE BREAD’S GETTING BAKED

Log Line:  A comedy drama about the unlikely friendship of an old Jewish baker

and a young Muslim cannabis dealer.

Genre:  Buddy Movie

Nat Dayan is a Jewish baker past his sell-by-date. His sons aren’t interested in the bakery and he can’t bear for the family business to end with him. But it can’t come soon enough for Sam Cotton, who wants to expand his supermarket chain into Nat’s shop. With the bakery’s customers either moving away or dying off, Sam decides to speed up its demise by poaching Nat’s assistant. With nobody to help him and unable to afford an experienced baker, Nat has no option but to take on his cleaner’s teenage son as an apprentice.

Ayyash Habimana is a Muslim refugee from Darfur. Growing up in poverty in an alien culture, he’s fallen in with some bad people, and some bad habits. One drugs bust later and Ayyash needs to pay his fine – or the police and Immigration will be knocking on his door. 

However the job’s not exactly what Ayyash had in mind. A young Muslim and an old Jew working together in harmony? It’s hardly a match made in heaven. More a marriage of convenience. Particularly when Ayyash decides to use it as cover for a more profitable job – dealing cannabis for local bad boy Moses Victor.

But when a large quantity of drugs accidentally ends up in the dough, bread sales boom. Customers go crazy for more and more goods and suddenly the cash is flowing. Nat thinks Ayyash has a special gift, and the wall of antagonism between them begins to crumble.

As the two grow closer, Nat becomes the father figure Ayyash lacks, and Ayyash reminds Nat how to be young again. 

But with Sam breathing down Nat’s neck, Moses after Ayyash for his cut and a ticking time bomb under everyone’s nose - nothing runs smoothly in love, war, and baked goods.

What follows is a feel good story about friendship, loyalty and magic muffins.