director: Netalie Braun
producer: Adi Bar Yossef, Aviv Ben Shlush and Netalie Braun
cinematographer: Itay Marom
screenwriter: Netalie Braun
cast: Dana Ivgy, Ben Sultan, Marek Rosenbaum, Romi Aviram, Nurit Galron
runtime: 90min
language: Hebrew
Year of Production: 2024
Countries of Production: Israel
With the outbreak of a new war in Israel, a soldier is about to enter the battle filed. His mother refuses to wait for bad news and decides to take matters into her own hands.
her son’s discharge from the army. But exactly on the due date of his release, a soldier is being kidnapped and a new war breaks out.
The condition of her shell-shocked father, Yakov (74), starts to deteriorate as Ido (21) calls to say that all discharges have been put on hold.
The angst-ridden Anat tries to get him back home appealing to the kindness of the clerks in charge and commanding officers. Ido returns. Believing her attempts were successful, Anat’s joy is only as great as her relief. Her spirit is broken when she discovers that Ido returned for just one night, and that discharges were not suspended - it was Ido who volunteered to fight. Their symbiotic relationship goes downhill, Ido returns to the border post and the battle on that front flares up.
Before his unit enters Lebanon after a second soldier is being kidnapped, Anat takes matters into her own hands. She organizes a 21st birthday party for him, with the help of his girlfriend. At the party she slips a drug into his coke and kidnaps him overseas
