Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestA group of Ethiopian Israeli youth decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. What starts off as a personal revenge scheme quickly boils over into a massive national protest movement against police violence and for equality. Led by the pain and rage of SELAM, the beautiful sister of police's victim, and the small-time crook INDAL, the group capture the officer in an abandoned public pool and turn the whole area into an autonomous zone for the struggle.
Acting
Eden Saban's Selam simmers with grief that demands your full attention.
Direction
The abandoned pool becomes a character—claustrophobic, liminal, electric.
Writing
Balances intimate family pain with explosive political scope.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real 2019 protests after Solomon Teka was killed by an off-duty officer, which sparked national reckoning on Ethiopian Israeli discrimination.
The title 'Indal' is slang derived from 'end of,' used ironically—someone who's nothing, until suddenly they're everything.
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