Release date: 10 June 1999
Stars:
Rivka Michaeli
(Gynaecologist),
Leah Koenig
(Elisheva),
Yussuf Abu-Warda
,
Amos Gitai
(Man in the bar),
Yaël Abecassis
(Rivka),
Samuel Calderon
,
Noa Dori
(Noa),
Uri Klauzner
(Yossef),
Meital Barda
(Malka),
Sami Huri
(Yaakov),
Yoram Hattab
,
Shireen Kadivar
(Lexa)
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The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitati