When Yolanda Moscowitz (Rita Zohar), a retired French teacher, wakes up in a hospital geriatric ward, she is convinced there must be some mistake. She wants to go home straight away. But the titanium plate in her hip confines her to a wheelchair and to a slow and lengthy convalescence, with people she believes aren’t anything like her – they are old.

Nonetheless, it is in this depressing ward that Yolanda discovers a new, full life: She develops a close relationship with Allegra (Shulamit Adar), the solitary woman with whom she shares a room and for whom the hospital is a second home; she confronts Rosie (Idit Teperson), the head nurse who manages the ward with a strong hand; and when she meets Shaul (Moni Moshonov), a former soccer player who is hospitalized in the ward and who calls upon the little French he remembers to flirt with her, emotions surface that she thought had vanished from her life for good. Like a young woman in love, she starts smiling, paying attention to the clothes she wears, putting on makeup, doing anything she can to captivate the charming Shaul.

When the time comes for her to return home, it’s the last thing she wants to do. However, she has no choice and is forced to return to her life of loneliness, with its French TV game shows and the cats in heat that wail under her window all night long. Just as she’s about to renounce her possessions to at least win over the friendship of Malka (Tiki Dayan), a caregiver who specializes in depriving the elderly of everything they own, there’s a knock at the door. 

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

 Jerusalem International Film Festival - The Award for the Best Actress
 Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema
 Calgary Jewish Film Festival
 Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
 Israeli Film Festival, NYC
 Miami Jewish Film Festival



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