Yoram, un veterinario de 50 años que vive en Tel-Aviv, se ve obligado a reexaminar su relación con su hija adolescente Roni, después de que ella desea terminar con su vida. Decide llevarla a un viaje para visitar a la familia de su madre, un proceso de descubrimiento mutuo y de uno mismo en una tierra desértica primordial que envuelve el Mar Muerto.
An eighty-year-old man's body is found with three stab wounds to the chest and a number tattooed along his forearm. Amnon, a police detective and second generation Holocaust survivor, is reluctantly assigned to the case. As the plot weaves between the past and present, their stories unfold.
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
On the day he is released from prison, Yisarael appears on the doorstep of the woman whose life he had changed. A weird relationship develops between the two.
