A new apartment house is about to go up beside the one Liviu resides in, and it will block his view. Or, on contrary, will it show him something he needed to see? Interviewing the construction crew, he finds they are a sort of family, some of them actual relatives, others together on the job for decades, playing out their own kind of permanence as they move from place to place. Liviu's own great move, from his native Romania to Israel, had no family continuity to it at all. He has a son of his own, named Din, a Hebrew word that means "judgment" or "justice" or "fate." Din is more than two years old but scarcely speaks. Liviu is moved to return to Romania and try to piece together, retroactively, the makings of his own fate-- to find its voice.
Liviu is proud that this documentary includes nothing staged and nothing re-enacted, but he calls it an "onion" because the three stories present so many layers as they illumine one another-- the building, the little son, and the back story in Romania.