In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives. Jaffa is a mixed Arabic - Jewish seaside city near Tel Aviv, where Reuven Wolf (Moni Moshonov) has a garage for repairing cars. His wife Ossi (Ronit Elkabetz), a vain, self-centered woman, just makes everybody's life difficult. The couple's daughter, Mali Wolf (Dana Ivgy), has secretly fallen in love with her childhood friend, the young Toufik (newcomer Mahmud Shalaby), a hard-working youth who has come as a helping hand to his Israeli-Arab father Hassan, a long-time mechanic working for Reuven.
Acting
Ronit Elkabetz devours every scene as the monstrous mother.
Direction
Yedaya's unflinching gaze never lets you look away.
Cinematography
Sweaty, sun-bleached Jaffa feels inescapable.
Director
Keren Yedaya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yedaya shot in actual Jaffa garages, casting locals who'd lived this tension.
Dana Ivgy and Lili Ivgy are real-life sisters playing sisters; Ronit Elkabetz rewrote her own scenes.
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