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Akiva and Shulem Shtisel, father and son, sit on a little balcony overlooking streets of the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem. A year has passed since the mother died. All the other children have left the nest, and only Shulam and Akiva remain - quarreling, making up, and laughing about themselves and the rest of the world. All will change when Akiva meets Elisheva.

Quietly devastating portraiture defines the central performance as a grieving patriarch navigates the rigid boundaries of his ultra-Orthodox community. This intimate character study finds profound beauty in the small, fractured moments shared between a father and his remaining sons.

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