- A middle aged single father copes with his teenage daughter's wish to end her life.
- Yoram is a vet at a safari park in Tel Aviv. A single father, his job is to take care of the wildcats, perform operations on sick animals and make sure that people don't get out of their cars when they encounter a herd of rhinos. Yoram sees less and less of his teenage daughter, Roni. To her, their dark apartment is a prison she breaks free from more and more frequently, and for increasingly long periods. One night, a team of paramedics appears at their door. Users of an internet forum have alerted them to the fact that Roni has decided to take her own life. After her attempted suicide, the only way out for father and daughter seems to be a trip out of town and back to the family. Israeli director Nimrod Eldar's feature-length debut is a story about injured animals, injured people and an injured country. A deceptive silence unfolds in calm and concentrated images. But all is not well beneath the surface and ghosts from the past are reemerging. Gradually, more and more details come to light, both about the relationship between father and daughter and with the rest of the family.
- Nimrod Eldar's directorial debut features Menashe Noy as Yoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian from Tel Aviv. After his adolescent daughter Roni attempts to end her life, he is forced to re-examine their relationship. Yoram decides to take her on a trip to visit her mother's family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.
- Widowed Tel Aviv veterinarian Yoram (Menashe Noy), a taciturn type whose communication skills are much less developed than his surgical abilities, has always put work above all, especially so in the wake of his wife's death. When his 17-year-old daughter Roni (Zohar Meidan, very impressive) goes missing for two days and then blithely shows up as if nothing is wrong, Yoram is unable - and, one realizes, unwilling - to delve too deeply into her disappearance. Two days later, Roni attempts suicide by overdose. Realizing that his daughter is in desperate need of her father, Yoram attempts to bridge the gulf between them by taking her to visit relatives - that act, in itself, being symptomatic of his inability to communicate with Roni one-on-one - but perhaps the time for rapprochement has past. Very well acted and directed, Nimrod Eldar's debut drama is an intimate chamber piece about familial disintegration and emotional impoverishment. What is so impressive here is Eldar's understanding of the lived psychology of loss and trauma at both the personal and - this being Israel - national level. Understated, wholly convincing, and very moving, the film "confirms Eldar as a promising talent with a subtle understanding of behaviour and emotions." - Allan Hunter, Screen. [VIFF 2019]—VIFF
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