Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestAs she races against time, with police officer Romi on one side and the criminal Muki on the other, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place and Dafna’s plan is revealed. She heads alone to the M.Z.K., Muki’s stronghold, and prepares for the final showdown.
Dafna Tzur’s (Mali Levi) life is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband, Oded (Rotem Keinan), has gotten himself into debt and put their family’s lives in danger. The series is divided into two timelines—before and after her husband’s murder. She embarks on a race against time and finds herself the prime suspect in a police investigation into her husband’s murder, led by Detective Romi Dor (Dror Keren).
Acting
Mali Levi's unraveling is physically exhausting to watch.
Direction
Fredman squeezes 24 hours into claustrophobic real-time dread.
Writing
Every 'simple' solution spawns three worse problems.
Creator
Benny Fredman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Israel's 2010s economic inequality crisis spawned a wave of 'debt thrillers'—this is the most brutally personal. The loan shark genre here reflects real underground banking crises affecting working-class families.
Mali Levi prepared by shadowing actual criminal defense attorneys in Tel Aviv's busiest courthouse, then couldn't shake the paranoia for months.
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