Dur­ing a teenage adven­ture in Israel, twins Petal and Rose find their lives diverg­ing in ways they could not have imag­ined, high­light­ing the com­plex­i­ties of their rela­tion­ship and shroud­ed fam­i­ly his­to­ry.

Free-spir­it­ed Rose becomes enrap­tured with the ultra-Ortho­dox Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty, while Petal delays her school­ing to watch over her sis­ter. Sad­dled with too much respon­si­bil­i­ty, Petal’s clin­i­cal depres­sion man­i­fests in self-destruc­tive behav­ior. She finds refuge on a kib­butz, as her sis­ter grows fur­ther from her, mar­ry­ing a man Petal does not deem wor­thy.

Years lat­er, Petal con­fronts her prej­u­dices about her sister’s life, her resent­ment, and the effects of gen­er­a­tional trau­ma on both their lives as she is called back to Toron­to from New York City to sup­port Rose dur­ing a cri­sis.

Told through the eyes of two gen­er­a­tions, Unteth­ered pro­vides insight into Ortho­doxy, post-holo­caust expe­ri­ence, men­tal ill­ness, gen­er­a­tional trau­ma, and grief while lay­ing the foun­da­tions for under­stand­ing and a path towards healing.