Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.
Directed by Rama Burshtein
tradition
rabbi
widower
woman director
levirate
jewish woman
women's rights
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Cast
Hadas Yaron
Shira Mendelman
Yiftach Klein
Yochay
Renana Raz
Esther Mendelman
Irit Sheleg
Rivka
Razia Israeli
Aunt Hanna
Hila Feldman
Frieda
Crew
Rama Burshtein
Director
Rama Burshtein
Writer
Popular Reviews
4 reviews
Ori
8.0★ · 03/06/20
The most annoying indecisive teenager on screen since Rory Gilmore.
The most annoying indecisive teenager on screen since Rory Gilmore.
hannah lau
7.0★ · 03/01/19
what a way to get married - felt very traditional even though it was made not so long ago. i would rewatch to analyze again because there was so much symbolism and the relationship from each character had me interested
what a way to get married - felt very traditional even though it was made not so long ago. i would rewatch to analyze again because there was so much symbolism and the relationship from each character had me interested