Contemporary Israeli Documentary Films

The film takes place in Antwerp, Belgium, the city where the director was born. In it unfolds the story of the painful relationship existing between his mother, aged eighty-seven, and himself, the son who suffered his entire life from the silence which reigned in the family. Beyond the depiction of a relationship between a mother and son seeking restoration, the film touches upon the wider questions of parentchild relationships, memory, guilt, and old age, against the backdrop of World War II and its effects upon the lives of its survivors – and upon the lives of their children.