Un escritor (Lior Ashkenazi) regresa a la casa familiar en Israel para cuidar a su padre enfermo (Harvey Keitel). Allí debe enfrentarse a su amargado hermano menor, quien asumió toda la responsabilidad de la panadería de su familia y se casó con la mujer (Shira Haas) a quien ambos amaban.
Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. He is afraid of flying and she is about to fly away. What are the odds of them ending up together?
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict manifests in its most complicated form over one night, and the encounter between two Israeli soldiers and the two Palestinian residents of the house to which the soldiers escape after their vehicle is attacked.
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
