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Alice meets Sophie Marciano (Lihi Kornowski) randomly on a train. At first, Sophie is a fan who seems like she might want to get a selfie with Alice. But soon, Alice feels like she has to explain herself. Sophie, who is a film student, tells Alice that she has written her first screenplay and that Alice’s husband David (Gal Toren) would be perfect for it.
Since he has abs of steel and is wanted by most women, Alice doesn’t take it seriously until she goes home and finds out that her husband is considering the role. Things get more complicated when Alice thinks she might want to direct the film. And when the actress auditioning for the role opposite David is flummoxed, questions abound about what is really going on.
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Beyond the Old City walls, in a neighborhood where names of the dead echo against stone, the squabbles, loves, joys and doubts of ultra-Orthodox Jews play out often with piercing humor in a modern-day drama balanced between devotion to God and the yearnings and imperfections of his creations.
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The Israeli TV boom comes at a time, Ziv notes, in which “the world has become a more international village and audiences are more willing to hear foreign languages and discover foreign settings. At the end of the day, it can be a story that is very far from your culture and what you know, but if it’s a good story, it can touch you in a very personal way that makes it feel like it happened nearby.”