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- This sensitive Israeli drama from director Michael Bat-Adam pays homage to the acting process. Maya (Liron Ben-Shlush) is a struggling theater actress who scores a part playing a girl who suffers a mental breakdown. She spends time in a mental ward to research the part, but when reality conflicts with the dramatic paradigm, her methods create problems within the intimate relationship she shares with her director.
- Macky is a fifty years old writer and university profesor. Married with children, he's having an affair with a 30 years-old mother Ayala. He spends his days and nights haunted by his fantasies while he has to face the real life and tries to write a novel. When Ayala's husband leaves her, she ends their relation leaving him without his source of inspiration.
- Rita is a screenwriter challenged by writer's block. With the help of her friend, actor Gadi, she struggles with four different scripts about friendship, adultery, and unfulfilled desires. As she writes and rewrites, she sees herself in most of the female parts and Gadi in most of the male parts. In a subplot, Rita becomes interested in a lonely old man with a black spaniel; she wonders about him and what stories he might have to tell. All of the characters are obsessed with asking and answering questions, with desire, and with self-identity.
- Israel 1948. A house by the sea in Jaffa, from which Palestinian families have had to flee in haste, becomes the home of Jewish survivors who managed to escape the inferno in Europe. Out of the turmoil of their existence, under the shadow of the unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs, rises a desperate cry for