Teen girl runs a desert foster home like a crime boss while lawyers plot her eviction. Chaos ensues.
Season 1 • Episode 27
LatestThe series is about a boarding school in the middle of the desert where at-risk youth are educated. Leli Gordon (Ella Lee Lahav) is a girl who arrived at the age of 11 and has been there ever since and she is actually the leader of the at-risk boys who are fighting for the foster home where they live. On the other hand, there is the Berger family, a hotel and real estate empire, headed by the family's daughter, the lawyer Nofer Berger, who is trying to kick them out in all kinds of serious ways
Acting
Ella-Lee Lahav commands every scene as teenage matriarch Leli
Production
Isolated desert location becomes character itself
Writing
Berger family legal schemes vs street-smart kids' resilience
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shumok dramatizes real Israeli foster care crises; desert boarding schools exist for 'at-risk' youth the state fails elsewhere.
Leli's age—arriving at 11, now leading teens—mirrors child soldier narratives, reframed as maternal protection rather than exploitation.
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