"Could you turn off the radio?" "And stop humming?" "I didn't know it bothered you." "It bothers me." "Maybe take another pill?" "I took too many." "It isn't helping." "Straight?" " No, no, left." "We're almost there." "Welcome..." "We've been waiting since morning." "So good to see you." "Hello, Ilana." "Your father needs a doctor." "I'll call Yoel." "I hope he can come." "So, how's our professor?" "At your command, Sir!" "Shuki!" "Sorry." "Hello, father." "Hello, son." "No!" "No!" "Come on, Dad..." "What's wrong with Avner?" "He doesn't feel well." "What is it this time?" "He's got bad headaches." "And you?" "How long can you let someone yearn for you..." "Nobody tells me the news!" "What news, Grandma?" "The guests." "We've been talking about it for two weeks." "I didn't hear anything." "You don't look good, Avner." "You work too much." "I'm fine, Mania." " You need to take better care of him." "We've trusted a national treasure in your hands." "I know." "I'm doing the best I can, but you know him." "How long are they staying?" "I don't know, Mother." "It's strange that Yoel didn't come." "I'm sure he'll be here any minute." "The light isn't working." "I'll get a new bulb." "Sorry I'm late." "A worker was wounded in the quarry." "How is he?" " He'll live." "How's your father?" " He's going out of his mind." "He's in pain and the pills aren't helping." " Really?" "Thanks." "You can wash here too." "I'll give you a shot." "Why a shot?" "It'll lessen the pain." "I hate shots." "I hate shots too, but I also hate seeing people suffer." "Maybe he should go to the hospital." "No, I don't think so." "Okay..." "What?" "Turn over." "It's okay." "That's it." " That's it..." "Hold this." "Do you need something?" "No." "Just raise up your father's head." "I'll bring another pillow." "He has to rest now." "He's a talented fellow, Yoel." "It's a shame." "Why a shame?" "That he's idly wasting his time." "Why do you think he's wasting his time?" "He wanders around the Arab villages looking for someone to help." "What's wrong with that?" "He could have a great career at a big hospital." "A man has to do something with his life... so when God asks what he did with the talent he gave him, he'll have a suitable answer." "You want coffee?" "Coffee?" "Maybe there's a little..." "Wine?" " For example." "There's the cognac you brought last time." "You're wonderful." "You think so?" "How would you know?" "You wouldn't have offered me cognac otherwise." "I hope the shot helps him." "Me too." "My father's a difficult man." "We're all a little difficult." "You're not difficult." "I am, I am." "I live a boring life, without inspiration, without beauty." "I work like a madman... running from morning till night, and when I finally lie down to sleep" "I'm afraid the phone will ring and call me to some patient." "What?" "I love the way you look at me." "How do I look at you?" "With those beautiful eyes of yours." "Beautiful?" "That's what they always say." " What?" ""You have beautiful eyes", "You have special eyes..."" "I know that I'm not beautiful." "If you're not beautiful, I don't know what beauty is." "How did you use to say it in Egypt?" " Say what?" "English soap, right?" "Right." "The kind that makes a lot of suds... like your compliments." "I really meant what I said." "I fixed up the room for you." "I hope you'll stay over." "I wish I could." "I'm on duty tonight." "Are you a professor too?" "Not yet." "Just a doctor." "And even that's not guaranteed." "Do you know why I love professors?" "Why?" "They know the past and they know the future... but they don't know what I think of them." "Yoel, what's up?" "How are you?" "Where did you come from?" "How long are you staying?" "What're you doing in this life and in your next life?" "Did you get married yet?" "I get it." "That's a sore spot." "What does a man need in life?" "A woman, no?" "Don't look at me, I'm not the marrying kind." "Neither am I. It seems I'll stay single." "Single and a virgin." "I wouldn't go that far..." "Come, let's help Khamis load the olive oil." "I'll see you later." "You're going already?" "Won't you stay for dinner?" "As a matter of fact, why not." "Great." "We'll eat in an hour." "I'll go breathe some fresh air." "Ilana?" "I missed you so much." "Me too." "Let's go away from here." "Where to?" " Let's go." "Now." "If we don't do it now, we never will." "I..." "I can't." "You can." "I can't." "What we have is crazy..." "How can I leave Avner?" "Maybe you don't want to." "I don't know what I want anymore..." "Why can't we leave things as they are?" "I've been waiting months to see you." "There isn't a moment that I don't think about you." "I've been waiting for you too." "Every day, every moment, every hour is filled with you." "So why?" "Why all this suffering?" "Why torment me?" "Why torment yourself?" "You're not saying anything." "What do you want me to say?" "You're still here?" "Rachel invited me for dinner." "She's in love with you, you know." "I don't know anything." "What happened?" "You look like you've seen a ghost." "Is everything okay?" " It couldn't be better." "What about you?" "The same as always, only worse." "I'm fed up with this work." "Nothing makes me happy." "I can't take it, it's all so boring." "How's the professor?" " He's sleeping." "And the lovely Ilana?" "What a woman..." "Tell me, Yoel, do you understand it?" "Understand what?" "Why she stays with him." "Why are you asking me?" "What does she see in him?" "I don't know." "I don't understand women..." "He's more than 30 years older than her!" "30 years!" "So?" "Picasso married a 30 year old woman when he was 80." "But Avner isn't Picasso." "Avner is an old geezer, always complaining." "What does she see in him?" "How could she fall in love with him?" "Your sister was in love with him and worshipped him." "That was ages ago." "She was blinded by him." "At 28, he had his PhD." "At 35 he was an art history professor with his own chair at the university, his articles published worldwide!" "I was blinded by him too even though I never understood what he wrote about." "Have you read him?" "Yes, I've read him." " Do you understand it?" "I understand, but there's not so much to understand." "Some people are impressed by it." "I'm not sure." "He's out of fashion today." "He's fading away." "Only his pretension hasn't faded." "He walks around like a genius, but he doesn't impress me anymore." "Because you're in love with his wife." "Who isn't in love with her?" "Couldn't you fall for her?" "Me?" " Why not?" "She's faithful to Avner." "I don't know." "I'm sure she has someone." "I can understand it." "It's not right for a woman like her to sacrifice her beauty..." "She'll leave him." "She'll leave him, you'll see." "She won't leave him." "I'll go check on him." "I'll go take a shower." "The quiche is wonderful." "I missed your quiches." "I made it especially for you." "I hate quiche." "You want some wine?" "Sure." "I hope it doesn't rain tonight." "We picked the first olives of the season today." "Will there be a big harvest?" " Yes, the question is the price." "Anyone want some?" " Gladly." "Me too." "Mother, the doctor forbids you to drink wine." "Yoel allows me to." "Right, Yoel?" "The truth is, a glass of wine a day won't harm her." "Quite the opposite." "Sorry, Shuki, I didn't know you wanted some too." "You could've asked, like you asked Yoel." "I'm sorry." "Since when do you drink wine?" "I'll send you the answer by registered mail." "Grandma!" "What?" "You let her smoke too?" "At my age, what does it matter..." "Right, Yoel?" "You want me to answer as a doctor?" "When you'll stop drinking, I'll stop smoking." "It's true, you're drinking too much lately." "What do you all have against me today?" "You got old, Yoel." "Where's the sparkle you had in your eyes when you'd read me" "Verlaine or Baudelaire in French?" "You were handsome as a prince." "To this day, I can't understand how a man who was born in Egypt speaks such good French." "But now, you're not so handsome anymore." "Yoel's right, you're all after him." "That's because we love him." "Grandma, what are you doing?" "We'll see who picks up the glove." "Mom, what happened?" "Where can I put her?" " You don't put me anywhere." "I'm not an object." "Forgive me, Mania." "You shut up when I'm speaking." "How did you even get here?" "Are you a doctor?" "A farmer?" "What are you?" "Just a man." "Why is he holding me?" "Help!" "He wants to kidnap me..." "Come on, Grandma, I'll take you to your room." "That's enough, let me live." "Every time someone's attracted to me, you go out of your mind." "It's the wine..." "No one gave you permission to speak." "Come on, Grandma." "I'm not moving from here." "It's my home." "No one can take me away from here." "How are you today, sweet prince?" "Enough, Ophelia, enough..." "It's never enough." "Until we die, we sleep, we dream..." "Shuki, take the plate out to the dog." "In a minute." " Not in a minute, now." "I said, in a minute." "I can't take it anymore." "That's your problem." "Do you have any rooms available?" "How many do you need?" " Two." "You didn't come at the best time." "We don't need anything, just beds." "Park over there and come inside, I'll get the rooms ready." "What's there to do?" " They've been empty and they're full of dust." "Dust is just what we need." "In fact, we came here to breathe the dust and put things in proportion." "About what?" "Don't take him so seriously, he's just going on." "What is this?" "A new wave of immigrants?" "From Russia?" "From Tel Aviv." "In Tel Aviv, I met the poet Bialik when I was 8." "He gave me a candy for a composition I wrote." "We have a Russian here." "Where are you from?" "Tel Aviv." "Are your parents from Russia?" "No, from Morocco." "So where's your Russian from?" "He had a Russian girlfriend, and that's how he learned." "My uncle, a strict man, lying on his deathbed in his sorrow" "Has commanded our respect." "A reasonable request, I must say." "He's set a fine example for us, but what boredom, dear God..." "To sit on one's deathbed day and night, and never once sneak away." "(Yvgeny Onegin" " Pushkin)" "Bravo!" "I can see you're a serious young man." "We're all serious." "Did you come here to work?" "They don't know how to work, Mother." "So what do they know?" "How to smoke." "To smoke..." "that's something too." "Make some smoke so we won't see the shame." "But know that behind the smoke, there's nowhere to run." "It's alright, we'll manage." "Do you know how?" "The girls know." "I'm joking." "We know how too." "Okay." "Shuki, take them to the rooms." "Follow me." "Leaving already?" "Yes." "I'll come check on Avner tomorrow." "Okay, I'll walk you to the car." "If you need me, you know how to find me." "Yes." "There's nothing to worry about." "Your father will be fine." "Good night." "Good night." "I brought some fruit." "Coffee?" "Why not..." "Thanks." "You've got quite a place here." "Yeah, but we work like dogs." "Maybe that's the answer to all our problems." "Go back to nature, live a real life, work in the fields..." "I couldn't stay here longer than a week." "If I could do what I want," "I could stay here forever." "What do you want to do?" "That's the question." "You know what Schopenhauer says about will?" "No." "But, there's a difference between philosophy and real life." "That depends on you." "Of course, that's exactly the problem." "Why don't you decide what you want to do?" "If I could, there wouldn't be a problem." "Don't get excited." "The benefits of war." "Which one?" "The never ending one." "And you are..." "before the army?" "Before and after." "What does that mean?" "I'm not getting drafted." " Me neither." "You too?" "His family is pestering him." "I don't get it, are you tourists in this country?" "No, we're natives." "What's all this bullshit?" "I sacrificed a leg and you want a free ride?" "I don't want to die to occupy land that isn't ours, to be a part of the occupation." "If you don't want to be part of the occupation then do something." "What can I do?" "Think." "It's too easy to sit on the porch and whine." "It's better to leave the country." " I'm sure that'll happen too." "I'm allergic to indifference." "It's not because we're indifferent, it's because we care." "More coffee?" "Thanks." "Is this whole place yours?" "Yeah, the family's." "Everyone in there is your family?" "My sister Rachel, our grandma Mania, she's our late mother's mother." "Dad who's married to Ilana." "The pretty one." "Yes, she's pretty." "And our uncle Menahem, our mother's brother." "There was someone else." "Yoel, the doctor." "He came to take care of my father." "Where does he live?" "In Rosh Pina." "There's something about him." "Is he married?" "No." "Dorit, it's your chance." "You love doctors." "Why doesn't he get married?" "Why don't I get married?" "Good morning." "Good morning." "Is everyone still asleep?" "Shuki and Menahem went out to work." "And Dad?" " Still sleeping." "Yoel?" "Yoel left." "I thought he was staying." "He was on duty last night." "He'll come later." "Maybe he'll stay for the Sabbath." "You want some tea?" " Thanks." "I missed this smell so much..." "and the greenery..." "To hear the birds in the morning..." "It's almost happiness." "Why almost?" "I don't know." " What?" "I don't know, everything..." "You're here?" "Good morning, Rachel." "Good morning, Dad." "Good morning, Ilana." "Good morning." "It's not such a good morning." "Those mosquitoes didn't let me sleep." "Now I can't stop scratching." " That's not true." "You slept well." "Really?" " I'll bring some cream for the itching." "I don't need creams, Racheli, what I need is no mosquitoes." "I'll make you coffee." "He drinks tea." "I'll make you tea." "It's going to be a nice day." "Ilana's not in a good mood." "Not as far as I know." " She wanted to come here so badly." "Why do I feel you're unhappy this morning?" "Because you bothered to look at me this morning." "Good morning everyone." "How do you feel, Dad?" "Good morning." " Good morning, Menahem." "Rachel?" "Do you have that honey..." "Of course." " Good morning, Ilana." "I see that the shot helped you." "No?" "I see that you all came back to life." "Good morning, Mother." " I'll bring you the milk." "Shuki, call them for breakfast." "Who are they?" "Okay, I'm going to work." "I'm already late because of that terrible night." "If I don't start on time, everything falls apart..." "Good morning, Mother." " It's morning." "I'm not sure it's good." "Good morning." " Good morning." "Who are they, workers?" "They're the group who's staying in the rooms." "Group?" "What group?" "They came yesterday, don't you remember?" "So what are you doing with your lives?" "Searching for ourselves." "Keep searching, you'll never succeed." "Do you work?" "Here and there." "That's how you look too." "That's how this whole generation is." "Not working, keeping an entire nation captive and hoping for the best." "You're being hard on us." "I'm not hard." "I want to save what's left." "But maybe it's already too late." "It's never too late, Grandma." "Go ahead, eat." "Is that you, Ilana?" "I'm in a lot of pain." "Again?" "Rachel said that Yoel should be coming." "I'll close the window." " No, no..." "I'm suffocating." "I fell asleep, dozed off a little." "I dreamt that I couldn't move my legs..." "I woke up because of the pain." "What time is it?" "Almost eleven." "Look on the bookcase." "The last time we were here, I left a book by Derida." "Why is it so hard for me to breathe?" "Maybe it's the heart?" "Why the heart?" "Does your chest hurt?" "Everything hurts..." "You're fed up with me." "I'm not fed up." "I hate myself and I'm making all of you hate me." "You're talking nonsense." "It's not nonsense." "You're young, beautiful, alive, and I'm an old man with one foot in the grave." "Don't worry." "I'll die and set you all free from my presence." "Stop it!" "You're torturing me." "I'm torturing everyone." "What do you want from me?" "!" " Nothing." "I don't want anything." "Just a little..." "What?" "Lately I feel like even my voice irritates you." "You don't love me anymore." "That's not true." "You think I don't know that I've become unbearable?" "So what?" "After all that I did?" "I dedicated my life to science and culture, don't I deserve to be respected, to be taken care of?" "I want to live!" "So what if I'm old?" "Aren't I still a human being?" "In a few years, I'll be old too." "I brought you some tea." "Yoel called." "He's on his way." "What do I need with Yoel?" "He knows medicine like I know nuclear physics." "What time is it?" "Eleven." "I'm suffocating..." "Rachel, there are some drops on the table..." "I'll get them." "No!" "Not these." "Don't yell at me, Dad, please." "I work hard enough." "I don't deserve it." "These?" "Nathan's at the olive press waiting for his bill." "Yoel's on his way." "Go, I'll be here until he comes." "No, no!" "Don't leave me with him." "He'll kill me with his babbling." "She needs to rest." "Get out, all of you!" "I'll be fine." "Menahem, I'm asking you, leave me alone." "Let's lay him down, he'll feel better." " Here, I'll help you." "Don't let him touch me!" "It's ridiculous." "What does he have against me?" "Ilana, Ilana!" "The book!" "Come on, Menahem." "I can't take it anymore." "I didn't sleep all night." "Me neither." "I was so happy to come, but it's always the same." "This house brings out the worst in us." "Really?" "The moment we got into the taxi, his migraines started." "Since then he hasn't stopped complaining." "Nothing is good enough for him." "I can't take it, he's torturing me." "And if that's not enough, Rachel's been frowning at me." "Your mother, who's getting senile, doesn't stop criticizing me." "And you frighten him all the time." "Why do you hate him so much?" "Ilana," "I'm lost without you, only you can save me." "Leave me alone, please..." "Ilana, Ilana, Ilana..." "What do you want from me?" "I love you, Ilana." "I love you." "What do you want me to do with that?" "I can't see you like this, wasting your life... the way I'm wasting mine." "For what?" "For what, damn it!" "I have to get back to work." "Hello, Menahem." "They're waiting for you." "What's going on?" "Don't ask me." "What's wrong with him?" "I don't know." "And Avner?" "Shall we go see how he is?" "No need." "He's fine." "He's asleep." "So I came for no reason." "It's this house..." "What about this house?" " This house is making him sick." "Really, Yoel..." "Stop it you too." "Stop what?" " Nothing." "Wait..." "Where are you going?" "Ilana..." "What, Ilana?" "What?" "Make love to me." "Don't say a word, just make love to me." "Ilana..." "Don't say a word." "Just listen." "When I woke up you weren't here." "Rachel didn't know where you were." "I went for a walk." "How do you feel?" "Much better." "Yoel's here." "Do you want him to see you?" "What for?" "Guess what?" "What?" "My paper on Foucault got into Princeton University's journal." "They sent me an email." "That's great." "I'd love to be a fly on the wall... to see the faces of my colleagues on the faculty." "Consumed by jealousy..." "You don't know how happy I am." "Where's Shuki?" "He's with those guys who came yesterday." "Good." "Young people should be with young people." "My paper was accepted to a journal at Princeton University." "Princeton?" "Really?" "And I'm invited to lecture at McGill in Canada." "Did you hear, Mom?" "Our genius is being honored." "Canada, Princeton..." "Where's Princeton?" "In America, Mother!" "America!" " What's so strange about it?" "I'm just impressed." " What about?" " Okay, so I'm not impressed." "Are you going?" "What?" "Are you going to Canada?" "If Ilana agrees." "She doesn't feel like traveling." "You have to convince her." "If it's important to you, that is." "Of course it's important to me." "It's my career, my life." "What life?" "Filling pages with pompous sentences read by scholars who only care about what they themselves write?" "I have nothing more to say to you." "You're trying to insult me." "You won't succeed." "I know exactly what I'm worth." "I don't need your appreciation." " Tell me, so I'll know as well." "Stop it." "I can't stand this talk." "What do you want us to talk about?" "We have nothing to talk about." "Nothing to say to one another." "They murdered our prime minister, the country is being ruined, and we're sitting, drinking coffee." "What can we do?" "That's the question." "What's the answer?" "I don't know." "We have an eminent scholar here." "Let him tell us what to do." "We can't just sit here indifferently and watch the country go to hell." "The country isn't going to hell, and I'm not indifferent." "Mania..." "I love you." " What's there to love?" "In my day we didn't complain." "We simply got up and did something." "Are you coming, Ilana?" "What is it, Menahem?" "You haven't stopped sulking all night." " Leave me alone." "Is it because of the professor?" "Or maybe the professor's wife?" "I'm not in a joking mood." "You know, Yoel..." "We've known each other for... 25 years." "The Yom Kippur War..." "I remember you running under fire to rescue my wounded." "Forget about it." "I think about it all the time." "I'm always thinking, thinking..." "How can I stop it?" "What?" "The thoughts." "How can I stop them?" "I fought in three wars." "I worked like a dog to maintain this farm because I promised my father." "And what?" "What?" "Nothing." "I don't have a life of my own." "I'm getting older... and useless." "It tears my heart out to see Rachel suffering..." "I'm tired, Yoel, I'm so tired." "You're drinking again?" " Racheli!" "Rachelushka!" "Ah, Racheli..." "Come, have a sip with your uncle." "You're drunk, Menahem!" "Why do you let him drink?" " I didn't..." " It's not him, it's me." "It's the only pleasure I have, why ruin it?" "What's going on with you lately?" "Nothing matters to you." "I can't handle it." "Are you crying?" "No." "The way you looked at me just now..." "Suddenly, it was your mother's gaze..." "Who knows where she is now?" "She would know." "What?" "Nothing." "It's not important." "I'm going." "It's not right." "If you have to drink, then drink." "But don't let Menahem drink." "It's not good for him." " You're right." "I think I'll go home." "It's almost morning." " But you said you'd stay." "Your father doesn't need me anymore." "No one needs me anymore." "You're drunk too." "You don't know what you're saying." "Come on, I'll make you coffee..." "My father is spoiled." "He's had success with women and they spoiled him." "Try this cheese." "We make it." "It's wonderful..." "Really wonderful." "Isn't it?" "I haven't eaten all day." "I only drank." "Take some herring." "I haven't tasted herring this good in ages." "You pickle it yourself?" "Tell me... what would they do in this house without you?" "Frankly?" "I don't know." "You gave up your life for this farm." "I didn't give up my life." "I live every day." "But children, a family..." "What about you?" "You don't have kids or a family." "Touché..." "I admire your ability to steer clear between your father and your grandmother who's living in another era," "Menahem who's worn out and Shuki who hasn't been himself since he was wounded," "not to mention your stepmother." "What about my stepmother?" "Nothing." "Apparently, I'm not happy with my life." "Just like your uncle..." "No one matters to me anymore." "How can you say that?" "No one matters to you?" "I care about Mania a little... and you... and Menahem." "The rest are caught up in themselves." "Small people with small ideas and no emotions." "I left the city and came to the Galilee." "I wanted to start a new life." "Look what they did here, they're ruining it all..." "Building non-stop, destroying the nature, they've dried the Hula Lake, turned the rivers into sewers..." " No, don't drink." "Why not?" " Because it doesn't suit you." "It's not you." "You're a good man, you're sensitive, you love culture..." "You're handsome." "You're not like anyone I know." "You say that people don't create anything, but ruin what God gave them." "So why ruin yourself?" "Okay, I won't drink anymore." "Promise me." "I promise." "One of my patients died last night." "I killed him." "What are you talking about?" "Yesterday they brought 3 soldiers wounded in Lebanon." "One of them needed an emergency operation..." "He was just like a boy." "A boy." "He died on the operating table when they were putting him under." "You're not guilty." "We're all guilty." "Like the Roman god, Saturn, we're devouring our children." "Someone can't sleep." "If it's Menahem or Avner, I don't have the strength for them." "You're not sleeping?" "No, I couldn't fall asleep." "Where's Yoel?" "I thought I heard his voice." "He went to sleep." "Is Dad sleeping?" "What's this?" "Yoel wanted to eat." "And drink." "Yes." "I'm in the mood for some too." " Really?" "I like to drink now and then." "Will you join me?" "Eat something." "I'm not hungry." "I hope your father won't be alarmed if he wakes up and I'm not there." "I don't think he'd be alarmed." "Sometimes he behaves like a child." "I know." "He's a little spoiled..." "A little?" "Are you happy with him?" "Do you love him?" "Sometimes I don't know anymore." "So leave him." "I can't." "Why?" "I love him." "I'll never leave him." "So what do you want?" "You think I married your father for my own interests." "Why do you say that?" " But it's not true." "That's not what I think." " I fell madly in love with him." "He was so brilliant, so wise." "I followed him without thinking." "But today it's a little different." "What's different?" "He's caught up in his things..." "Sometimes I feel like I'm not living." "Why are you laughing?" "What can I say?" "It's not the same thing." "I know it's not easy for you." "Enough, I'm going to start crying too..." "What do you think about Yoel?" "He's an excellent doctor." "I'm fond of him." "He's a wonderful man." "He's so devoted to his patients... the way he loves nature... he knows every plant and insect." "He's involved in every effort to save the Galilee." "There's nothing bad about him." "I think about him all the time." "God, you're really in love with him." "But he doesn't love me." "No one loves me." "We all love you." "Yeah, but I only want one person to love me." "One person who'll want me, who'll miss me." "So why don't you talk to him?" "To whom?" " To Yoel..." "And what do you want me to say to him?" "It's almost morning." "Try to sleep a little." "You didn't go to bed?" "I couldn't fall asleep." "I couldn't sleep either." "Coffee?" "No, I'm going out for a walk..." "to breathe the morning air." "Look how much dew there's on the grass." "Yeah, lots of dew." "Very nice." "Bravo, Shuki." "I'm happy for him." "As long as he doesn't mess it up." "Don't worry." "He's a big boy." "Everyone's still asleep?" "No, Yoel went out." "Did he leave?" "No, he went for a walk." "Good morning." "Good morning." " Good morning." "You want something to drink?" "No, I have a headache." "It's from the cognac you drank." "Coffee will make you feel better." "I made it strong for you." "Look at her." "Simply wonderful, simply wonderful..." "Menahem!" "You're already starting first thing in the morning?" "Please, Menahem, you're boring me." "Stop it, you're pestering her." " I'm pestering her?" "She prances around, doing nothing, driving all of us crazy." "Ilana, Ilana, Ilana..." "Why are you tormenting yourself?" "Underneath that bored face, your blood is boiling." "Don't torment yourself." "Let your true nature out, fall in love with someone." "Surprise the professor and the rest of us." "You... you..." "Ilana, I'm sorry..." "It's not right." "I have to apologize to her." " Drink your coffee and eat something." "Where is everyone?" "They're still sleeping." "What, there's no work today?" "It's the Sabbath." "So what if it's the Sabbath?" "Don't cows still have to be milked?" "Mom, we haven't had cows in ages." "I'll bring you some tea." "Good morning everyone." "You're full of energy today." "I didn't sleep all night!" "Me neither, but it hasn't made me happy." "Where's he taking all that?" "It's none of your business." "Good morning." "Good morning, Mania." "Good morning." "It's going to be a nice day." "I have something important to tell you all." "About what?" " Okay, we're listening." "Where's Ilana?" "I want her to be here too." "She was here a second ago." "Where did she go?" "I don't know." "I think she went outside." "I'll go get her." "Where's Shuki?" "I'm leaving soon." "I thought you'd stay the whole day." "There's no reason for me to stay." "You'll never come with me." "Where do you want me to go with you?" "To your cabin?" "It's not a cabin." "What am I going to do when you're visiting your patients?" "Whatever you want." "You and your dreams, you don't live in reality." "I live entirely in reality." "I need..." "I need the big city," "I need people, culture," "London, Paris, New York..." "I need my work." "Stupidly, I thought my love would be enough." "I thought you loved me." "I do love you." "In my own way." "If you want someone who'll really love you, there's someone who loves you." "Rachel will follow you anywhere." "I know." "If I could love her, I'd marry her." "Marry her." "Maybe you'll learn to love her." "If you could only see her eyes when she talks about you..." "You'll never find another love like that." "Ilana?" "Avner's looking for you." "He has something important to tell us." "Ilana, come on." "We're all waiting for you." "Come, sit down." "Okay, so we're all here." "Yoel isn't here." "It doesn't concern him." " What did you want to say?" "Why get excited?" "What's with that tone?" "What tone?" "I only asked..." "That's what I'm talking about." "Don't ask, wait and listen." "Dear friends..." "I want to talk about something important to all of us." "I want to talk about our future." "We all know how much this farm brings in." "I spoke with some people who understand these things." "According to them, the value of this farm including the land is much greater than what the farm brings in." "It's an ideal location for development." "There are roads, water, and the view is an asset on its own..." "Dad, what are you talking about?" " About this farm... that only brings in a few pennies a year." "We all need an income in order to live." "I'm not young anymore, and Mania... she should live and be strong... you and Shuki, you're ruining your lives instead of using the potential within you." "You could broaden your horizons, find a husband..." "Okay, okay!" "What do you want to tell us?" "I'll make two proposals, we should choose one of them." "The first is to sell the farm and the land and split the money we receive." "The second is to turn the place into a resort, a luxury hotel, with a swimming pool, a golf course, horseback riding... there's a huge piece of land..." "A playground for the kids..." "It will give us a respectable income." "An amusement park." "You want to build an amusement park." "What a brilliant idea!" "Pity it's not convenient." "I hoped you'd be a little more serious." "I'm very serious." "I'm as serious as can be." "You want to liquidate the farm, right?" " You got it." "Over my dead body!" "Do you hear me?" "Over my dead body." " Why over your dead body?" "What does it even matter to you?" "Your father left the farm to your sister Hava and me." "You gave up your share because you planned to be a big general in the army." "The farm is to pass to Rachel and Shuki after I die." "So tell me, what's so terrible about my plan?" "What's terrible is your stupidity." "What?" " Proposition A and B." "How dare you speak to me that way." "I'll send you the answer by mail." "You want to take from me the most important thing in my life away." "After Hava died, I left the army." "I came to save the farm that was up to its neck in debt." "I worked like a dog for 15 years with Rachel and Shuki to rehabilitate the mess that was here." "We paid off all the debts." "People come from all over to buy our olive oil and cheeses." "And you... you want to throw me to the dogs?" "I don't understand why you're angry." " Really?" "All this time, we didn't take a single thing for ourselves." "We sent you the money every month." "You never even thanked us." "You treated us like we're your serfs." "You could have taken as much money as you wanted." "You wanted me to steal?" "!" "What happened, Menahem?" "Why are you so angry?" "He wants to throw you out on the street." " I'm not throwing anyone out." "Stop Dad, we can't handle any changes right now." "We don't have to sell it." "We'll keep the property and still earn money." "This farm is my life!" "It's your daughter's life!" "What do you want?" "You want to kill us?" "You want to murder us?" "To bury us?" "Here, take it." "Take it and kill me." "Enough, stop it!" "I can't stand it!" "If you can't stand it, then get out of here!" "How dare you speak to her like that?" "Stop it, please, stop it." "Mom..." "Tell me what to do..." "Don't tell me anything." "I know what to do." "I can't take it any more." "I want to leave." "Dad, go to him, talk to him." "What did I say?" "I was only thinking of our best interests." "If you're all against it, pretend I never said anything." "Tell him that you didn't mean it." "I'm begging you." "Speak to him." "I'm not angry at him." "I'm begging you." "Talk to him." "Make up with him." "Fine, I'll go talk to him." "But I don't think it'll help." "What's happening?" "Stop him!" "He's crazy!" "He wants to kill me!" "Menahem!" "He wants to kill me!" "He's crazy!" "I missed again..." "Here, take it..." "Why did he do that?" "What did I say?" "Why can't I talk in this house?" "Don't you think you did enough damage?" "Shut up!" "Don't tell me to shut up in my house!" "No one's going to shut me up!" "You think I don't see what's going on?" "You think that I'm blind?" "You're against me too." " Enough!" "Leave me alone." "Why are you following me?" "Give me back what you took from me." "I didn't take anything." "Don't make me use force." "Go right ahead." "Whatever you want." "Can you believe it?" "To fire at him twice, and miss twice." "How humiliating..." "It would've been better if you put a bullet in your head." "You're right." "I don't get it." "I tried to kill a man and you did nothing?" "Why don't you call the police?" "Because I'm crazy, right?" "You all think I'm crazy, right?" "But a man who's a heartless idiot, hiding behind the mask of a professor, he's not crazy." "Right, Yoel?" "And a young woman who marries that old wretch, cheats on him and fucks around in front of everyone... she's not crazy in your eyes..." "Huh, Yoel?" "You're not crazy." "You're just stupid." "Stupidity isn't something you die from." "I'm so embarrassed, Yoel..." "I'm almost 50." "If I live until 70, I'll have another 20 miserable years." "What am I going to do?" "How am I going to fill those years?" "If I could only wake up one morning, look at the world around me" "and feel that I'm starting a new day." " Nonsense." "There are no new lives." "There's what we have." "There's no salvation for us." "Not for you and not for me." "You really think so?" "In another fifty, one hundred years..." "Those who come after us will look at us and despise us." "They won't understand how we lived such stupid lives, drugged with illusions..." "impotents..." "Now give me back what you took from me." "I didn't take anything." "You took the morphine from my bag." "I told you, if you want to die put a bullet in your head." "But you took the gun from me." "Your uncle took morphine from me." "Tell him how stupid that is." "Why are you trying to scare us?" "Give him back what you took." "You're not the only one who's miserable," "I'm suffering too." "Give it back to him, I beg you." "Have mercy on me, you're a good man." "Give him back what you took." "Here, take it." "Racheli, help me." "I don't know what to do..." "I can't take it anymore..." "We have to go back to work, we'll die otherwise." "Yes, we'll go back to work." "Soon they'll leave and we'll get back to work." "We're leaving." "Avner wants to talk to you." "Come on, you and Dad have to make up." " But..." "No buts." "Come on." "Menahem!" "Yoel..." "What a stupid name." "Who's idea was it to call me Yoel?" "You're touching me." "Talk to me." "Say something." "There's nothing more to say." "You're right." "We're going, you won't be seeing me anymore." "If it's any comfort to you." "Just don't remember me badly." "I truly loved you." "One could write a novel about what's happened." "I'm sure..." "Don't be angry at me." "I'm sorry about the shooting." "I really wanted to kill you." "I know." "Don't hold a grudge." "Apparently, I made a mistake." "I only had good intentions." "I gladly apologize and accept your apology." "You'll get your money as always, on the 10th of the month." "My dear Mania..." "Goodbye, Avner." "Be sure to send me your paper from Princeton." "Princeton..." "I'm sorry, Ilana." "Forgive me." "There's nothing to forgive." "Take care of yourself, Dad." "Shuki..." "And who's the young lady?" "Her name is Yael." "Hello, Yael." "Goodbye, Shuki." "I think we won't be seeing them anytime soon." "That'd be nice." "You know..." " What?" "I suddenly had a strange thought." "What thought?" "If you and Rachel got married, then you and I would be related." "That is a strange thought." " No, no, don't laugh." "We've seen stranger things happen." "Thanks for the meal." "I'm going to go now." "Already?" "Rachel..." "No, it's nothing... just nerves, the stress from this whole day..." " Here, here..." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Don't forget to visit." "I won't forget." "Drive carefully." "Goodbye, Mania." "Goodbye." "Despite it all, you're a good man." "Take care of yourselves." "At your command, Sir!" "Your test results arrived." "What do they say?" "Your cholesterol is through the roof." "I'll tell it to come down." "Their whole visit was unnecessary." "Nothing's unnecessary." "Everything is a lesson, you just have to understand it." "That's a lesson I would've skipped." "That's like saying you'd skip out on life." "Maybe it would've been better if I hadn't been born." "Then you wouldn't have known what you were missing." "That's true." "I don't understand." "I don't understand what all this is for..." "It's for waking up." "For not sleeping through our lives." "To be overwhelmed by the world all around us and remember how lucky we are, that we can open our eyes every morning," "see the day, the sun, the trees..." "For all this?" "In order to learn." "Everyday we learn something new." "And what did we learn today?" "Things aren't always as we want them to be." "I've known that for 50 years." "You know it, but you don't accept it." "You have to accept it and be happy." "Be happy?" "Yes." "About what?" "About the fact that we're sitting here and asking these questions." "Fine, I learned the lesson." "And now what?" " What now?" "Now what?" "We'll keep living..." "like before." "So simple." "How didn't I think of that?" "We'll keep living." "And accept it all with love." "We'll suffer... we'll be happy, and we'll suffer..." "And say thank you every day for what we have." "We'll wait for the sun to rise in the morning, and the moon to light up the night sky." "We'll harvest olives, make cheeses, plant flowers, sow carrots, radishes and parsley." "And lettuce..." "And lettuce." "What else can we ask for?" "Did anything happen that I need to know?" "Not really..." "But since you're asking," "I think we should make quince jam today." "Quince jam..." "What's important is to do something." "Yes, what's important is to do something." "Subtitles:" "Cinematyp Studios Ltd."