Arquivo

In 1999, Kalman, a young Jewish contractor, decided to join her sister, Samantha, in Palestine, leaving behind his old and frail father. Even though he admires his children’s idealism, the father warns Kalman of the dangers of that region. When he gets to Palestine, Kalman finds his sister living with Dov, a young idealistic architect who seeks inspiration in the works of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement. In her spare time, Samantha is an assistant to Professor Oscar Kalkovsky, who strongly believes that the only way for Israel to be firmly established as a nation is by cooperating with the Arabs, with whom the Jews share the Palestinian territory. Also part of this group is Silvia, who thinks quite differently from Oscar. Each of these five individuals has an entirely different view of the future of Israel as an independent state. The film was selected for the 2001 Venice Festival official competition, and is based on the novel Homely Girl, by the American playwright Arthur Miller, who at 80 plays the father in his first role in a film.