1 00:01:12,340 --> 00:01:14,675 Go to sleep. 2 00:01:14,677 --> 00:01:16,276 I'm not tired. 3 00:01:17,712 --> 00:01:18,946 All right. 4 00:01:20,348 --> 00:01:22,883 Let's make up a story. 5 00:01:22,885 --> 00:01:24,985 - Shall I start? - Yes. 6 00:01:28,022 --> 00:01:32,285 Once upon a time there was a village, abandoned by its inhabitants... 7 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:37,080 Even the rats left. 8 00:01:37,215 --> 00:01:39,499 Even the rats left. 9 00:01:39,501 --> 00:01:43,469 The village stood silent and abandoned, year after year. 10 00:01:44,671 --> 00:01:49,590 Rain pounded the streets, washing away any human trace. 11 00:01:50,378 --> 00:01:55,882 When the rats cleared, birds swarmed over the village. 12 00:01:55,884 --> 00:02:00,519 There were so many, they almost blocked out the sky. 13 00:02:00,521 --> 00:02:02,921 It was night, all day long. 14 00:02:04,357 --> 00:02:07,759 But then, from one small house... 15 00:02:07,761 --> 00:02:11,062 A little boy opened the door. 16 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:15,434 He was the only one left behind. 17 00:02:31,583 --> 00:02:35,119 My mother was 38 when she died. 18 00:02:37,556 --> 00:02:41,725 At my age today, I could be her father. 19 00:02:43,562 --> 00:02:46,564 Many things have happened in Jerusalem. 20 00:02:46,566 --> 00:02:51,889 The city was destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt again. 21 00:02:52,138 --> 00:02:55,940 Conqueror after conqueror came, ruled for a while, 22 00:02:55,942 --> 00:03:00,968 left behind some walls, some towers, some cracks in the stones, 23 00:03:01,447 --> 00:03:03,239 and then disappeared, 24 00:03:03,274 --> 00:03:06,393 like the morning mist down the hillslopes. 25 00:03:07,751 --> 00:03:11,921 Jerusalem's a black widow, 26 00:03:11,923 --> 00:03:15,158 who devours her lovers while they are still inside her. 27 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:24,501 - We're late. - The boy, Arieh. 28 00:03:33,777 --> 00:03:37,446 My mother grew up in the town of Rovno, 29 00:03:37,448 --> 00:03:40,616 which was then in Poland, and is now in Ukraine. 30 00:03:42,452 --> 00:03:45,854 Her childhood there was made up of words like... 31 00:03:45,856 --> 00:03:49,124 Chandeliers, servants, 32 00:03:49,126 --> 00:03:51,860 mystery, 33 00:03:51,862 --> 00:03:54,196 romantic melancholy... 34 00:03:58,501 --> 00:04:01,712 As anti-semitism spread through Europe... 35 00:04:02,705 --> 00:04:05,207 My mother dreamed of Israel... 36 00:04:06,842 --> 00:04:12,146 As the land of milk and honey, where pioneers made the desert bloom... 37 00:04:17,686 --> 00:04:22,757 She imagined the pioneer as a poet, worker, revolutionary, 38 00:04:22,759 --> 00:04:26,861 born for fields and battlefields alike, 39 00:04:26,863 --> 00:04:32,500 but also emotional and intellectual. 40 00:04:35,704 --> 00:04:39,873 After my mother and her family fled Europe, 41 00:04:39,875 --> 00:04:42,509 back in Poland's 'Sosenki Forest', 42 00:04:42,511 --> 00:04:44,744 where my mother and her sisters 43 00:04:44,746 --> 00:04:48,014 once loved to pick mushrooms and berries, 44 00:04:48,016 --> 00:04:52,186 and sleep in sleeping bags on the riverbank beneath the stars. 45 00:04:54,922 --> 00:04:59,635 Germans, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians, opened fire with machine guns, 46 00:04:59,670 --> 00:05:03,763 and killed 23,000 Jews in two days. 47 00:05:08,102 --> 00:05:11,971 They killed almost everyone my mother had ever known. 48 00:05:21,748 --> 00:05:23,215 A million kiddies... 49 00:05:24,551 --> 00:05:26,785 A million kiddies... 50 00:05:26,787 --> 00:05:29,855 They killed a million kids like you! 51 00:05:32,726 --> 00:05:35,995 Jerusalem, 1945, under the British mandate 52 00:05:39,566 --> 00:05:42,600 Good day, ma'am. May I please have Tel Aviv 648? 53 00:05:42,602 --> 00:05:45,570 Please wait a minute, sir. 54 00:05:45,572 --> 00:05:47,672 Mr. Nashashibi is on the way. 55 00:05:47,674 --> 00:05:51,799 Of course I'll wait, but people are waiting on the other end too. 56 00:05:51,823 --> 00:05:55,177 - It's too early, Arieh. - It will take time to get a connection. 57 00:05:55,224 --> 00:05:58,394 What if they connect us right way, and nobody is there yet? 58 00:05:59,118 --> 00:06:00,818 Hello? Tsvi? 59 00:06:02,788 --> 00:06:05,757 - Speaking. - It's Arieh, from Jerusalem. 60 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:08,593 Yes, Arieh. Hello. This is Tsvi. How are you? 61 00:06:08,595 --> 00:06:10,294 Everything is fine here. 62 00:06:10,296 --> 00:06:13,030 - We're calling from the pharmacy. - Ask my sister how she is. 63 00:06:13,032 --> 00:06:15,766 How's it going in Tel Aviv? 64 00:06:15,768 --> 00:06:18,035 Everything's fine. Nothing special. 65 00:06:18,037 --> 00:06:19,703 Life. 66 00:06:19,705 --> 00:06:23,273 No news is good news. There's no news here either. 67 00:06:23,275 --> 00:06:26,977 We'll write and set a time for the next call. 68 00:06:26,979 --> 00:06:28,779 Take care of yourselves. 69 00:06:28,781 --> 00:06:30,213 - Be well. - You too. 70 00:06:32,617 --> 00:06:37,354 They weren't actually sure if they'd talk again or not. 71 00:06:37,356 --> 00:06:40,624 There could be riots, or a pogrom. 72 00:06:40,626 --> 00:06:42,626 The British could betray us. 73 00:06:44,327 --> 00:06:46,362 The curfew will start soon. 74 00:06:55,906 --> 00:06:57,640 Hello. 75 00:06:57,642 --> 00:06:59,375 - Good evening. - Good evening. 76 00:07:01,978 --> 00:07:04,814 Close the windows! Close the doors, please. 77 00:07:09,152 --> 00:07:11,220 They're all gone now. 78 00:07:12,723 --> 00:07:15,057 It's like Rovno was just a dream. 79 00:08:00,235 --> 00:08:02,102 It's here. 80 00:08:08,042 --> 00:08:10,110 A new book, hot off the press. 81 00:08:11,379 --> 00:08:14,047 My first book. 82 00:08:14,049 --> 00:08:17,718 The novella in Hebrew literature. 83 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,219 It's like having a new baby. 84 00:08:28,462 --> 00:08:30,029 I'll invite your parents. 85 00:08:34,468 --> 00:08:38,226 "To my brother and teacher, David, whom I lost in the darkness. " 86 00:09:15,141 --> 00:09:19,494 Who said your uncle would be the only important academic in the family? 87 00:09:19,780 --> 00:09:23,280 Well, it's only my first publication. 88 00:09:23,282 --> 00:09:27,985 And not the last. 89 00:09:27,987 --> 00:09:31,522 The borscht is good. Not bad... 90 00:09:31,524 --> 00:09:33,791 Almost tasty. 91 00:09:33,793 --> 00:09:36,794 But even gentile servants in Jewish homes 92 00:09:36,796 --> 00:09:40,865 knew that borscht should be sour and just slightly sweet... 93 00:09:40,867 --> 00:09:43,968 never sweet and slightly sour. 94 00:09:43,970 --> 00:09:49,139 Like the poles who always add sugar, with no rhyme or reason. 95 00:09:49,141 --> 00:09:53,210 They even ruin horseradish by adding jam to it. 96 00:09:54,912 --> 00:09:59,015 Let's raise a toast in honor of the new book. 97 00:09:59,017 --> 00:10:00,416 - Lehayim. - Congratulations. 98 00:10:13,364 --> 00:10:18,167 If you have to choose between telling a lie or insulting someone, 99 00:10:18,169 --> 00:10:19,765 choose to be generous. 100 00:10:23,574 --> 00:10:25,408 I'm allowed to lie? 101 00:10:27,877 --> 00:10:29,845 Sometimes... yes. 102 00:10:31,347 --> 00:10:35,017 It's better to be sensitive than to be honest. 103 00:10:55,405 --> 00:10:57,605 Come, hold the peg. 104 00:10:59,408 --> 00:11:01,684 We'll make our own little kibbutz, 105 00:11:01,719 --> 00:11:04,474 and by our own efforts, "bring forth bread from the earth. " 106 00:11:04,509 --> 00:11:05,813 Forward! 107 00:11:07,616 --> 00:11:12,620 You know, the word "kadima" means forward. 108 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:15,389 But... 109 00:11:17,259 --> 00:11:21,395 The word actually derives from the word "kedem," 110 00:11:21,397 --> 00:11:24,065 which refers to "ancient times. " Ahh! 111 00:11:24,067 --> 00:11:26,934 Ah! 112 00:11:26,936 --> 00:11:31,404 So the Hebrew speaker actually looks forward to the past. 113 00:11:31,406 --> 00:11:33,907 - Interesting, isn't it? - Yes. 114 00:11:33,909 --> 00:11:36,443 Are you hurt? 115 00:11:36,445 --> 00:11:39,012 Arieh? 116 00:11:39,014 --> 00:11:41,648 Can you recognize me under all this sweat? 117 00:11:41,650 --> 00:11:43,316 Watch this. 118 00:11:44,418 --> 00:11:46,019 Ha! 119 00:12:00,101 --> 00:12:02,668 That's it! 120 00:12:08,141 --> 00:12:10,309 My father once told me, 121 00:12:10,311 --> 00:12:14,279 "Amos, consider the etymological link between the words... 122 00:12:14,281 --> 00:12:17,449 Earth, man, 123 00:12:17,451 --> 00:12:22,521 blood, red, silence. " 124 00:12:32,331 --> 00:12:36,000 You write a new novel every six months, 125 00:12:36,002 --> 00:12:39,237 and right away, all the pretty girls grab you off the shelf 126 00:12:39,239 --> 00:12:41,539 and take you straight to bed. 127 00:12:41,541 --> 00:12:43,975 At least my books have some fun. 128 00:12:43,977 --> 00:12:46,310 If you're trying to get girls, 129 00:12:46,312 --> 00:12:49,047 maybe you should write romance novels. 130 00:13:02,661 --> 00:13:06,569 All I'm saying is, don't rush. Ask your sisters. 131 00:13:06,975 --> 00:13:10,233 Your life is only your own for a very short time... 132 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:12,602 from the time you leave home to your first pregnancy. 133 00:13:12,604 --> 00:13:15,038 Even when your child grows up, you don't get your life back. 134 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,240 You go from being a mother to a grandmother. 135 00:13:19,611 --> 00:13:22,874 But everybody says that children are the best thing that can happen to you. 136 00:13:23,515 --> 00:13:26,349 Who's everybody? 137 00:13:26,351 --> 00:13:29,219 Remember what happened to our neighbor? 138 00:13:29,221 --> 00:13:30,554 Ira? 139 00:13:30,556 --> 00:13:33,023 Steletsky's wife. 140 00:13:33,025 --> 00:13:35,058 Yes, the alcoholic husband, 141 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:38,194 who ran our father's flour mill. 142 00:13:42,699 --> 00:13:47,570 He would bet on her at cards, and lose her, 143 00:13:47,572 --> 00:13:50,206 each time for one night, 144 00:13:50,208 --> 00:13:54,043 until finally she left him for the coachman's son. 145 00:13:54,045 --> 00:13:56,645 Anton! 146 00:13:56,647 --> 00:13:58,747 From this hut... 147 00:13:58,749 --> 00:14:01,784 She could see her children playing in the distance. 148 00:14:04,554 --> 00:14:08,123 Then one day, she decided to go see her daughter. 149 00:14:16,265 --> 00:14:18,333 As she approached, 150 00:14:18,335 --> 00:14:19,767 her daughter called her a whore... 151 00:14:19,769 --> 00:14:22,170 And refused to speak to her. 152 00:14:22,172 --> 00:14:24,539 Kira! 153 00:14:27,409 --> 00:14:32,480 That night, Ira gathered whatever strength she had left, 154 00:14:32,482 --> 00:14:35,750 went into the little hut with a can of petrol... 155 00:14:41,823 --> 00:14:43,657 And lit a match. 156 00:15:11,185 --> 00:15:14,487 Our children don't realize how much they can hurt us. 157 00:15:14,489 --> 00:15:16,122 I just can't understand why... 158 00:15:16,124 --> 00:15:18,124 Why no one warned you? 159 00:15:18,126 --> 00:15:20,359 What did you expect? A warning in fine print? 160 00:15:20,361 --> 00:15:24,230 That you're only food? 161 00:15:24,232 --> 00:15:26,866 That you're what the chick eats to grow strong? 162 00:15:28,669 --> 00:15:31,137 No one warns us, 163 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:35,341 because every mother thinks she's the only one who feels that way... 164 00:15:35,343 --> 00:15:38,844 and every mother cries into her pillow, alone at night. 165 00:15:38,846 --> 00:15:42,480 Except for our mother, who just curses us. 166 00:15:47,887 --> 00:15:51,389 "Tarzan the Invincible" 167 00:16:06,339 --> 00:16:10,690 - Stay out of trouble. Just be a good boy, okay? - Okay. 168 00:16:12,612 --> 00:16:17,181 My parents' friends, Staszek and Mala Rudnicki, 169 00:16:17,183 --> 00:16:19,617 had no children of their own... 170 00:16:19,619 --> 00:16:23,687 so sometimes my parents would let them borrow me. 171 00:16:23,689 --> 00:16:25,756 My father said 172 00:16:25,758 --> 00:16:29,927 that the Hebrew word for childlessness 173 00:16:29,929 --> 00:16:33,631 is related to the word for darkness, 174 00:16:33,633 --> 00:16:37,534 and that the word for darkness is related to forgetting. 175 00:16:38,536 --> 00:16:41,272 Lack of memory. 176 00:16:41,274 --> 00:16:44,275 Lack of children. 177 00:16:44,277 --> 00:16:46,376 Lack of light. 178 00:16:48,379 --> 00:16:51,814 My mother would go off on her own. 179 00:16:51,816 --> 00:16:53,801 To where... 180 00:16:54,116 --> 00:16:56,715 I could only imagine. 181 00:16:56,750 --> 00:16:59,329 When visiting an arab home, 182 00:16:59,364 --> 00:17:01,722 it's especially important to remember your manners. 183 00:17:01,757 --> 00:17:06,767 Children are expected to stay out of adult conversations. 184 00:17:06,802 --> 00:17:12,759 Only if spoken to directly, may you answer briefly and very politely. 185 00:17:12,837 --> 00:17:14,804 If refreshments are served, 186 00:17:14,806 --> 00:17:18,340 don't choose something that might make crumbs or grip. 187 00:17:18,342 --> 00:17:20,309 If they still insist you have something, 188 00:17:20,311 --> 00:17:23,245 just refuse, but delicately, like a gentleman... 189 00:17:23,247 --> 00:17:26,982 even if you can't resist the sight of sweets. 190 00:17:26,984 --> 00:17:31,041 We were only invited because your uncle Staszek took care of Al-Halwani's son. 191 00:17:31,076 --> 00:17:33,989 If, on this occasion, in such tense times, 192 00:17:33,991 --> 00:17:38,460 we behave like animals, not only will it be sheer insolence, 193 00:17:38,462 --> 00:17:42,597 it could cause enormous damage to the future of our two peoples. 194 00:17:51,306 --> 00:17:53,708 Jacket? Jacket? 195 00:18:30,711 --> 00:18:35,591 Ah! Ah, my friend, 196 00:18:35,690 --> 00:18:38,678 come, come, come. Welcome, welcome, welcome. 197 00:18:38,713 --> 00:18:40,246 - Pleased to meet you, madam. - Hello. 198 00:18:40,555 --> 00:18:45,483 Please, everybody, I would like you to meet my friend, the great Mr. Stav. 199 00:18:45,494 --> 00:18:48,328 Mr. Stav helped to clear my son Edward, 200 00:18:48,330 --> 00:18:51,330 from that unfortunate incident at the beginning of the summer. 201 00:18:51,684 --> 00:18:53,598 Thank you for coming. 202 00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:56,111 Please, come here. Maybe... 203 00:18:56,146 --> 00:19:00,238 Maybe the youngster would like to go and play in the garden? 204 00:19:03,315 --> 00:19:05,103 Please. Please, madam. 205 00:19:05,138 --> 00:19:06,877 I want to show you... 206 00:19:43,048 --> 00:19:45,349 Good morning, Miss. 207 00:19:46,919 --> 00:19:50,955 My name is Amos. And you? 208 00:19:52,724 --> 00:19:54,558 My name is Aisha. 209 00:19:56,127 --> 00:19:59,563 This is my brother, Awwad. 210 00:20:00,998 --> 00:20:02,666 Your father... 211 00:20:02,668 --> 00:20:07,268 Your honored father suggested... that I come here to play with you. 212 00:20:07,303 --> 00:20:09,779 He's not my father. He's my mother's uncle. 213 00:20:09,814 --> 00:20:14,530 - I don't live here. I live in Talbieh. - How do you know Hebrew? 214 00:20:15,481 --> 00:20:18,782 I've been studying piano in Rehavia for three years now. 215 00:20:18,784 --> 00:20:24,704 It's a beautiful language, and Rehavia is beautiful too, so well-kept and quiet. 216 00:20:26,156 --> 00:20:29,058 Talbieh is also well-kept and quiet. 217 00:20:32,863 --> 00:20:35,431 Would you mind if we talked for a bit? 218 00:20:35,433 --> 00:20:38,067 Aren't we talking already? 219 00:20:51,014 --> 00:20:54,450 There's enough room in this country for both peoples. 220 00:20:54,452 --> 00:20:58,786 We just need to learn to live together in peace and mutual respect. 221 00:21:02,458 --> 00:21:04,659 I have a big brother in London. 222 00:21:04,661 --> 00:21:07,028 He's studying to be a lawyer. 223 00:21:08,497 --> 00:21:11,199 What do you want to study when you grow up? 224 00:21:12,468 --> 00:21:15,537 What about you? 225 00:21:15,539 --> 00:21:19,474 You'll be a lawyer too, based on how you speak. 226 00:21:19,476 --> 00:21:22,384 What makes you think that? 227 00:21:22,629 --> 00:21:26,831 - I'm going to write a book. - Really? What kind of book? 228 00:21:26,988 --> 00:21:29,172 Poems. 229 00:21:29,207 --> 00:21:33,292 - Poems? - Yes. In French and English. 230 00:21:33,856 --> 00:21:38,725 I also write in Arabic, but I never show it to anyone. 231 00:21:40,895 --> 00:21:43,230 Is there nice Hebrew poetry? 232 00:21:43,232 --> 00:21:46,500 Of course! Levin Kipnis, Rachel. 233 00:21:46,502 --> 00:21:50,837 Vladimir Jabotinsky, Tcheminchowsky... 234 00:21:50,839 --> 00:21:53,607 "A generation of gods walks the land... 235 00:21:54,742 --> 00:21:57,878 "A generation drunk on life! 236 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,681 "Estranged from a sick people. 237 00:22:00,683 --> 00:22:03,683 And the tribe of sufferers. " 238 00:22:10,524 --> 00:22:12,858 Can you also climb trees? 239 00:22:21,535 --> 00:22:23,869 Rest a minute, 240 00:22:23,871 --> 00:22:26,706 just a minute. 241 00:22:26,708 --> 00:22:29,542 Rest a minute, 242 00:22:29,544 --> 00:22:30,977 just a minute. 243 00:24:08,071 --> 00:24:12,040 This is the father of Amos. May I please speak with Mr. Al-Halwani? 244 00:24:14,143 --> 00:24:18,680 Well, could you please tell him how very truly sorry we are about what happened? 245 00:24:18,682 --> 00:24:21,695 We are anxious for the health of the dear child. 246 00:24:21,730 --> 00:24:25,693 We'll pay any of the child's medical expenses, of course, in full. 247 00:24:28,825 --> 00:24:31,393 And we sincerely wish to effect a meeting at an early date 248 00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:35,063 to clarify and try to right the wrong. 249 00:24:50,912 --> 00:24:53,280 Once there were two monks, 250 00:24:53,282 --> 00:24:56,054 who imposed all sorts of restrictions on themselves. 251 00:24:56,089 --> 00:25:02,066 Among other things, they resolve to cross all of India on foot. 252 00:25:09,098 --> 00:25:11,931 They also took a vow of complete silence. 253 00:25:13,701 --> 00:25:15,935 Even in their sleep, they would not speak 254 00:25:15,937 --> 00:25:20,273 a single word throughout their years of travel. 255 00:25:20,275 --> 00:25:22,075 But once... 256 00:25:22,077 --> 00:25:24,735 while they were walking along the bank of a river, 257 00:25:24,813 --> 00:25:28,047 they heard a drowning woman crying for help. 258 00:25:37,725 --> 00:25:41,375 Without a word, the younger monk jumped into the water. 259 00:25:44,130 --> 00:25:48,043 He bore the woman on his back and laid her on the ground. 260 00:25:54,941 --> 00:25:58,911 The two monks continued their journey in silence. 261 00:25:58,913 --> 00:26:01,195 Six months later, 262 00:26:01,230 --> 00:26:04,107 the younger monk suddenly asked, 263 00:26:06,953 --> 00:26:09,154 "Tell me... 264 00:26:11,457 --> 00:26:16,360 Do you think I sinned when I carried that woman on my back?" 265 00:26:16,362 --> 00:26:19,030 His friend answered with a question: 266 00:26:19,032 --> 00:26:23,267 "What? Are you still carrying her on your back?" 267 00:26:38,450 --> 00:26:44,355 Amos, when I was a student, I loved to read here among the flowers. 268 00:26:44,457 --> 00:26:48,525 And one day, after class, she met your future father here. 269 00:26:48,527 --> 00:26:50,927 Do you remember what I told you about the word "flower"? 270 00:26:52,530 --> 00:26:55,532 Flower is a combination of the words "Bull" and "Scent. " 271 00:26:55,534 --> 00:26:57,801 "Bull" has the same root as "Fertility," 272 00:26:57,803 --> 00:27:02,138 and "Scent" lures the insects that fertilize the plant. 273 00:27:02,140 --> 00:27:05,308 He took advantage of my weakness for words. 274 00:27:05,310 --> 00:27:08,478 What could I do? All the boys were courting her! 275 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,963 I had to make myself stand out. 276 00:27:11,816 --> 00:27:13,149 That's what happened. 277 00:28:13,575 --> 00:28:18,379 Remembering is like trying to restore an old building 278 00:28:18,381 --> 00:28:20,614 with the stones from its ruins. 279 00:28:22,250 --> 00:28:24,618 And the stones have memory. 280 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:35,896 May I please have some APC? 281 00:28:35,898 --> 00:28:38,065 I have a headache that won't go away. 282 00:28:38,067 --> 00:28:42,225 I don't believe them. I don't believe anyone anymore. 283 00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:44,338 It's a big conspiracy. 284 00:28:44,373 --> 00:28:47,908 What do you think? That our boys will fight for you, 285 00:28:47,910 --> 00:28:50,077 that they risk their young lives for you, 286 00:28:50,079 --> 00:28:52,411 when you say it's all a conspiracy? 287 00:28:52,413 --> 00:28:56,126 Yes, because it is all one big conspiracy! It's like theater! 288 00:28:56,161 --> 00:28:59,919 Ben-Gurion secretly agreed to sell Jerusalem to king Abdullah 289 00:28:59,921 --> 00:29:01,921 so that he can keep his kibbutzim. 290 00:29:01,923 --> 00:29:04,590 They don't care if they slaughter and burn us all. 291 00:29:04,592 --> 00:29:07,159 What's wrong with you? How can you say that? 292 00:29:08,595 --> 00:29:11,097 A million kids... 293 00:29:11,099 --> 00:29:15,368 If there is a war... when there is a war... we will win. 294 00:29:15,370 --> 00:29:17,911 Our state is standing right at the gate. 295 00:29:18,638 --> 00:29:21,842 It's not standing. There is no gate. 296 00:29:22,943 --> 00:29:26,211 - There is an abyss. - Not in front of the child. 297 00:29:32,451 --> 00:29:34,352 Mm. 298 00:29:35,688 --> 00:29:37,956 Nothing grew! 299 00:29:37,958 --> 00:29:40,191 Come here. 300 00:29:47,967 --> 00:29:50,035 You know... 301 00:29:50,037 --> 00:29:54,472 That if you open up someone's head and take out his brain... 302 00:29:56,241 --> 00:29:59,977 you see that our brains are nothing but cauliflower... 303 00:29:59,979 --> 00:30:02,579 a cauliflower this size. 304 00:30:02,581 --> 00:30:06,984 What a miracle it is that this small cauliflower 305 00:30:06,986 --> 00:30:10,421 can hold the sky and the land, 306 00:30:10,423 --> 00:30:13,524 the sun and all the stars. 307 00:30:13,526 --> 00:30:18,996 It can hold Plato's ideas, and Beethoven's music, 308 00:30:18,998 --> 00:30:23,000 and Chekhov's plays... 309 00:30:23,002 --> 00:30:27,236 all the dinosaurs and the whales... 310 00:30:30,074 --> 00:30:34,577 And the hopes and the passions and mistakes and fantasies... 311 00:30:36,013 --> 00:30:38,114 And that's it. 312 00:30:51,562 --> 00:30:53,696 Amos! 313 00:30:53,698 --> 00:30:56,017 Come play with us! 314 00:30:56,052 --> 00:30:59,608 I can't. My grandma is coming today. 315 00:31:03,372 --> 00:31:05,507 Kids! What are you doing? 316 00:31:10,446 --> 00:31:13,048 You've abandoned me. 317 00:31:13,050 --> 00:31:16,051 I have no life here. 318 00:31:16,053 --> 00:31:19,621 You spit on me, your own mother... 319 00:31:19,623 --> 00:31:24,326 the only person who will take care of you! 320 00:31:25,328 --> 00:31:28,663 Just look at you. 321 00:31:28,665 --> 00:31:30,998 How can you stand it? 322 00:31:34,503 --> 00:31:36,670 This place is disgusting! 323 00:31:39,107 --> 00:31:43,093 Oh. I'm not good enough for you to answer? 324 00:31:44,513 --> 00:31:47,648 I should have left you in Rovno! 325 00:31:47,650 --> 00:31:50,651 I would have been better off! 326 00:32:17,545 --> 00:32:19,412 Fanitchka! 327 00:32:22,550 --> 00:32:24,250 Fania! 328 00:32:25,619 --> 00:32:28,354 Amos, where's your mother? 329 00:32:32,793 --> 00:32:36,195 Fania? 330 00:32:58,818 --> 00:33:01,653 You won't believe it! My book is sold out! 331 00:33:01,655 --> 00:33:03,422 All five of them! 332 00:33:03,424 --> 00:33:06,174 He said he'd order more. He already did, by phone. 333 00:33:06,209 --> 00:33:08,996 Five more! He says this is just the beginning! 334 00:33:16,735 --> 00:33:19,904 Let's go to the Edison and see a film. 335 00:33:24,676 --> 00:33:27,178 Zarchi will watch you, okay? 336 00:33:27,180 --> 00:33:28,913 For us. 337 00:33:28,915 --> 00:33:33,751 You can find hell and paradise in every room. 338 00:33:35,621 --> 00:33:40,624 A little meanness, and people are hell to each other. 339 00:33:40,626 --> 00:33:43,760 A little compassion, a little generosity, 340 00:33:43,762 --> 00:33:46,863 and people find paradise in each other. 341 00:33:46,865 --> 00:33:50,367 Congratulations again. 342 00:33:50,369 --> 00:33:52,802 I still can't believe it. 343 00:33:52,804 --> 00:33:54,437 Give my love to Garbo. 344 00:33:55,940 --> 00:33:57,374 Amos, behave yourself. 345 00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:32,875 Want a book? 346 00:34:42,918 --> 00:34:45,253 Tchernichowsky. 347 00:35:28,496 --> 00:35:31,965 It seems that your Patience has helped our plants. 348 00:35:31,967 --> 00:35:34,875 Why don't you go see for yourself? 349 00:36:08,335 --> 00:36:13,038 When my family moved to the house on Dubinska Street, 350 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,608 we inherited some tenants from the previous owners. 351 00:36:18,344 --> 00:36:22,614 A Polish officer named Jan lived in the front room. 352 00:36:22,616 --> 00:36:26,584 Every Friday, my mother would send one of us 353 00:36:26,586 --> 00:36:30,855 with a tray of hot biscuits, straight from the oven, 354 00:36:30,857 --> 00:36:33,792 to wish him a good sabbath on behalf of the entire family. 355 00:36:33,794 --> 00:36:35,059 Sabbat shalom. 356 00:36:37,631 --> 00:36:40,632 He would stroke my head... 357 00:36:40,634 --> 00:36:44,334 Call me cyganka... a gypsy. 358 00:36:45,105 --> 00:36:48,806 And promise he would wait for me, 359 00:36:48,808 --> 00:36:51,675 and marry me when I grew up. 360 00:37:01,953 --> 00:37:05,489 But, one day... 361 00:37:07,392 --> 00:37:11,528 A Sunday morning before the sun came up... 362 00:37:13,131 --> 00:37:16,250 The colonel decided to try out his pistol. 363 00:37:18,402 --> 00:37:21,471 He fired two bullets through the closed window into the garden. 364 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:26,776 By chance, he hit a pigeon, 365 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:29,645 which was found wounded in the garden the next day. 366 00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:35,051 Then he fired one shot at a bottle on the table... 367 00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:39,155 Two more at the chandelier... 368 00:37:42,659 --> 00:37:44,393 And then... 369 00:38:00,042 --> 00:38:05,780 Once, I found a note in a crack in a desk drawer. 370 00:38:05,782 --> 00:38:08,450 It was written in a woman's handwriting. 371 00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:13,488 "To my precious little wolf cub. 372 00:38:13,490 --> 00:38:17,459 "In all my life I've never met a better, more generous man than you. 373 00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:21,629 I am not worthy to kiss the soles of your shoes. " 374 00:38:21,631 --> 00:38:25,766 There were two spelling mistakes. 375 00:38:27,202 --> 00:38:29,737 It was signed with an "N", 376 00:38:29,739 --> 00:38:32,600 and she sketched lips below it. 377 00:38:43,051 --> 00:38:46,008 Nobody knows anything about anyone... 378 00:38:47,589 --> 00:38:52,947 Not even the person you marry, and not even about ourselves. 379 00:38:53,727 --> 00:38:56,062 We know nothing. 380 00:38:56,064 --> 00:38:59,899 But if we sometimes imagine that we do know something, 381 00:38:59,901 --> 00:39:02,702 that's even worse. 382 00:39:02,704 --> 00:39:05,672 It's better to live without knowing... 383 00:39:05,674 --> 00:39:08,508 than to live in error. 384 00:39:15,249 --> 00:39:18,718 November 29, 1947 385 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:20,520 Tonight... 386 00:39:20,522 --> 00:39:22,522 at lake success, near New York, 387 00:39:22,524 --> 00:39:26,725 the general assembly of the un will vote on what? 388 00:39:26,727 --> 00:39:29,528 Adopting the unscop proposal. 389 00:39:29,530 --> 00:39:31,029 And what's the proposal? 390 00:39:31,031 --> 00:39:34,900 To create two states out of the British mandate: 391 00:39:34,902 --> 00:39:36,868 One Jewish, and one Arab. 392 00:39:36,870 --> 00:39:42,207 - Who opposes it? - The Muslim bloc and Britain. 393 00:39:42,209 --> 00:39:44,710 And why? 394 00:39:44,712 --> 00:39:48,880 They want an Arab state under British protection. 395 00:39:48,882 --> 00:39:52,974 - Like Egypt, Transjordan and Iraq. - Well done! 396 00:39:53,009 --> 00:39:56,120 You know, the name lake success... 397 00:39:56,122 --> 00:39:58,923 is the opposite of the sea of tears, 398 00:39:58,925 --> 00:40:01,759 with symbolized the fate of our people for the poet Bialik. 399 00:40:03,296 --> 00:40:06,631 - It's interesting. - Interesting. 400 00:40:08,266 --> 00:40:09,845 Norway... 401 00:40:09,921 --> 00:40:11,717 yes. 402 00:40:11,752 --> 00:40:13,326 Pakistan... 403 00:40:13,361 --> 00:40:15,037 no. 404 00:40:15,072 --> 00:40:16,573 Panama... 405 00:40:16,608 --> 00:40:17,742 yes. 406 00:40:17,744 --> 00:40:19,310 Paraguay... 407 00:40:20,646 --> 00:40:22,580 yes. 408 00:40:22,582 --> 00:40:24,915 Could you please help me? 409 00:40:25,951 --> 00:40:27,751 Philippines... 410 00:40:27,753 --> 00:40:29,185 yes. 411 00:40:30,187 --> 00:40:31,254 Poland... 412 00:40:31,256 --> 00:40:33,790 yes. 413 00:40:33,792 --> 00:40:35,759 Saudi Arabia... 414 00:40:35,761 --> 00:40:37,827 no. 415 00:40:37,829 --> 00:40:42,332 Siam... absent. 416 00:40:42,334 --> 00:40:44,334 Sweden... 417 00:40:44,336 --> 00:40:45,935 yes. 418 00:40:45,937 --> 00:40:47,704 Syria... 419 00:40:47,706 --> 00:40:49,272 no. 420 00:40:49,274 --> 00:40:50,940 Turkey... 421 00:40:50,942 --> 00:40:52,609 no. 422 00:40:52,611 --> 00:40:54,044 Ukraine... 423 00:40:54,046 --> 00:40:55,812 yes. 424 00:40:55,814 --> 00:40:57,347 South Africa... 425 00:40:57,349 --> 00:40:59,114 yes. 426 00:40:59,116 --> 00:41:00,816 Soviet union... 427 00:41:00,818 --> 00:41:02,351 yes. 428 00:41:02,353 --> 00:41:04,620 United Kingdom... 429 00:41:04,622 --> 00:41:06,288 abstained. 430 00:41:06,290 --> 00:41:08,624 United States... 431 00:41:08,626 --> 00:41:10,192 yes. 432 00:41:10,194 --> 00:41:11,860 Uruguay... 433 00:41:11,862 --> 00:41:13,629 yes. 434 00:41:13,631 --> 00:41:15,130 Venezuela... 435 00:41:15,132 --> 00:41:16,799 yes. 436 00:41:16,801 --> 00:41:18,133 Yemen... 437 00:41:18,135 --> 00:41:19,702 no. 438 00:41:19,704 --> 00:41:21,303 Yugoslavia... 439 00:41:21,305 --> 00:41:24,039 abstained. 440 00:41:26,711 --> 00:41:29,378 The resolution... 441 00:41:29,380 --> 00:41:32,980 of the ad hoc committee for Palestine 442 00:41:32,982 --> 00:41:37,852 was adopted by 33 votes, 13 against, 10 abstained. 443 00:41:44,393 --> 00:41:48,629 The Jewish nation lives! The Jewish nation lives! 444 00:42:20,728 --> 00:42:22,696 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. 445 00:42:22,698 --> 00:42:25,732 Everything is about to change. 446 00:42:25,734 --> 00:42:27,300 I told you it would. 447 00:42:29,437 --> 00:42:33,006 We brought peace unto you! 448 00:43:32,264 --> 00:43:36,100 You can't imagine what the gentile boys did to me 449 00:43:36,102 --> 00:43:38,439 in my school in Vilna. 450 00:43:42,173 --> 00:43:47,110 Then, when my father, your grandfather, came to the school to complain, 451 00:43:47,112 --> 00:43:48,946 they attacked him too. 452 00:43:48,948 --> 00:43:52,282 They threw him to the ground, 453 00:43:52,284 --> 00:43:55,519 and removed his pants in the middle of the yard. 454 00:43:57,355 --> 00:44:00,357 All the children laughed. 455 00:44:00,359 --> 00:44:03,293 And the teachers watched and were silent. 456 00:44:05,797 --> 00:44:08,065 Some of them also laughed. 457 00:44:11,168 --> 00:44:14,170 Bullies may well bully you someday 458 00:44:14,172 --> 00:44:17,540 in the street or at school. 459 00:44:17,542 --> 00:44:20,776 They may do it just because you're a bit like me. 460 00:44:22,212 --> 00:44:25,815 But from now on, now that we have our own state, 461 00:44:25,817 --> 00:44:28,985 you will never be bullied just because you are a Jew. 462 00:44:28,987 --> 00:44:31,053 Never again. 463 00:44:41,831 --> 00:44:45,934 A few hours later, at seven in the morning, 464 00:44:45,936 --> 00:44:48,370 while we were all asleep, 465 00:44:48,372 --> 00:44:53,008 shots were fired on Jewish vehicles in Jerusalem, 466 00:44:53,010 --> 00:44:56,244 which turned into riots across the country. 467 00:45:22,596 --> 00:45:25,020 My code name is 'Garibaldi'. 468 00:45:28,115 --> 00:45:32,371 I'll be instructing you how to help in our patriotic wartime efforts. 469 00:45:33,581 --> 00:45:35,482 You will help... 470 00:45:37,219 --> 00:45:39,086 You will search all the storage yards and sheds 471 00:45:39,088 --> 00:45:41,889 for empty bags to fill with sand, 472 00:45:41,891 --> 00:45:44,123 and empty bottles to make "cocktails" 473 00:45:44,125 --> 00:45:47,393 that will be very tasty for the enemy. 474 00:45:47,395 --> 00:45:52,165 You also will gather edible Greens from empty fields, 475 00:45:52,167 --> 00:45:54,567 to help relieve the hunger in Jerusalem. 476 00:45:54,569 --> 00:45:56,877 And we'll also serve as look-outs... 477 00:45:58,231 --> 00:46:00,483 To observe any movements by the Brits. 478 00:46:00,850 --> 00:46:02,321 Now go! 479 00:46:29,469 --> 00:46:31,269 How beautiful. 480 00:46:31,271 --> 00:46:33,939 Wash them off and I'll cook them right now. 481 00:46:33,941 --> 00:46:36,108 You must be hungry after all your food foraging. 482 00:46:39,612 --> 00:46:41,013 Put some water in this. 483 00:46:50,455 --> 00:46:53,024 Fanitchka? 484 00:46:53,026 --> 00:46:55,192 I joined the national guard. 485 00:47:00,966 --> 00:47:03,134 Don't you have anything to say about that? 486 00:47:03,136 --> 00:47:05,903 What do you want me to say? 487 00:47:05,905 --> 00:47:08,239 Congratulations. You're very brave. 488 00:47:14,513 --> 00:47:17,214 The war infiltrated our home. 489 00:47:17,216 --> 00:47:21,017 Life became rations, sandbags... 490 00:47:21,576 --> 00:47:23,411 mourning. 491 00:47:53,416 --> 00:47:56,018 In the lives of individuals, 492 00:47:56,020 --> 00:47:58,020 and in the lives of nations, 493 00:47:58,022 --> 00:48:03,492 the worst conflicts erupt between two persecuted people. 494 00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:13,368 Only in the imagination do the persecuted unite in solidarity 495 00:48:13,370 --> 00:48:16,505 to fight together against their ruthless oppressor. 496 00:48:19,042 --> 00:48:21,043 In reality, 497 00:48:21,045 --> 00:48:23,544 two children of the same abusive father 498 00:48:23,546 --> 00:48:26,147 will not necessarily become allies. 499 00:48:29,718 --> 00:48:31,752 Often, each sees in his brother 500 00:48:31,754 --> 00:48:34,789 their father's threatening ways. 501 00:48:39,795 --> 00:48:43,698 Europe abused the arabs, humiliating them with colonialism... 502 00:48:45,501 --> 00:48:49,036 And the same Europe persecuted and annihilated the Jews. 503 00:48:53,808 --> 00:48:58,078 But the arabs see us as an arrogant new branch 504 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,897 of European colonialism and exploitation, 505 00:49:02,416 --> 00:49:07,320 and we do not see arabs as brothers in adversity, 506 00:49:07,322 --> 00:49:12,826 but rather, as anti-semites, Nazis in disguise. 507 00:49:17,099 --> 00:49:21,268 ...after 30 years of the British mandate... 508 00:49:21,270 --> 00:49:24,604 The new state was born 509 00:49:24,606 --> 00:49:29,775 with David Ben-Gurion's declaration in Tel Aviv just hours earlier. 510 00:49:29,777 --> 00:49:33,445 For weeks, our basement apartment was turned into a kind of bomb shelter 511 00:49:33,447 --> 00:49:36,348 for the residents of the apartments above us. 512 00:49:43,790 --> 00:49:47,293 You're pulling. It hurts! 513 00:49:47,295 --> 00:49:50,162 What is this? Crumbs everywhere! 514 00:49:50,164 --> 00:49:53,098 You can't make such a mess here! 515 00:49:55,168 --> 00:49:58,536 A hundred Jews were burned alive yesterday near Sheikh Jarrah. 516 00:49:58,538 --> 00:50:01,472 They were in a convoy going up to the hospital and university. 517 00:50:01,474 --> 00:50:03,241 A hundred people! 518 00:50:03,243 --> 00:50:06,311 Doctors, nurses, students. 519 00:50:06,313 --> 00:50:10,181 - Why didn't we save them? - The British wouldn't let us. 520 00:50:10,183 --> 00:50:12,342 Who can even stomach this chicken, 521 00:50:12,377 --> 00:50:14,932 when horrors like that happen right in front of us? 522 00:50:14,967 --> 00:50:17,494 The children haven't eaten meat in two months. 523 00:50:36,674 --> 00:50:38,141 Here you go, ma'am. 524 00:50:45,383 --> 00:50:46,583 Who's next? 525 00:52:07,862 --> 00:52:10,597 When her friend died, 526 00:52:10,599 --> 00:52:15,669 when real tragedy landed outside the pages of my mother's novels, 527 00:52:15,671 --> 00:52:20,274 the suffering wasn't romantic at all. 528 00:52:54,475 --> 00:52:56,809 There's an armistice agreement with Egypt. 529 00:52:56,811 --> 00:53:01,547 Next will be Transjordan, and then Syria and Lebanon. 530 00:53:13,559 --> 00:53:15,761 When the British left, 531 00:53:15,763 --> 00:53:19,564 the green line was drawn around Israel. 532 00:53:23,002 --> 00:53:26,949 Our neighbors moved back to their own homes, euphoric and optimistic, 533 00:53:27,007 --> 00:53:31,743 and left us along to ourselves. 534 00:53:31,745 --> 00:53:36,381 The improbable creation of the new state of Israel 535 00:53:36,383 --> 00:53:41,519 extinguished thousands of years of Jewish longing 536 00:53:41,521 --> 00:53:44,555 for a homeland of its own. 537 00:53:44,557 --> 00:53:49,460 Maybe my mother felt the loss of this passion, this dream, 538 00:53:49,462 --> 00:53:54,098 because suddenly she stopped telling her stories. 539 00:54:31,502 --> 00:54:34,070 What do my eyes see? 540 00:54:34,072 --> 00:54:38,074 A boy, about three, standing in the middle of the street, 541 00:54:38,076 --> 00:54:40,976 and a military vehicle rushing toward him. 542 00:54:40,978 --> 00:54:44,497 I mustered all my strength. I yelled to him. 543 00:54:45,416 --> 00:54:47,997 "Boy! Boy!" 544 00:54:48,751 --> 00:54:54,159 It seemed my shout reached him, because he quickly jumped aside. 545 00:54:54,194 --> 00:54:57,593 Who knows? Maybe his mother left him alone, 546 00:54:57,595 --> 00:55:00,662 or maybe she's poor and can't support him 547 00:55:00,664 --> 00:55:05,531 and can't stand to see him starve, or maybe he's an orphan. 548 00:55:05,669 --> 00:55:09,171 Yes, there are children like that in our world too. 549 00:55:46,507 --> 00:55:48,117 Give me your sandwich! 550 00:55:49,477 --> 00:55:51,044 Give me your sandwich! 551 00:56:29,049 --> 00:56:33,519 Our blood will not be spilled in vain! 552 00:56:33,521 --> 00:56:36,655 Abandoned property 553 00:57:06,085 --> 00:57:07,719 I'll be back in fifteen minutes. 554 00:57:08,999 --> 00:57:10,680 Can I go with you? 555 00:57:10,715 --> 00:57:13,177 I need to be alone for a bit. 556 00:57:13,660 --> 00:57:15,827 You can be alone too. 557 00:57:15,829 --> 00:57:17,962 I'll be back soon. 558 00:59:10,503 --> 00:59:12,703 Maybe you can finally tell me. 559 00:59:12,738 --> 00:59:16,511 What is it about you that makes me love you so much? 560 00:59:17,712 --> 00:59:20,347 More than anything... 561 00:59:20,349 --> 00:59:23,720 More than anything, I love your innocence. 562 00:59:24,109 --> 00:59:26,421 I've never encountered anything like it. 563 00:59:27,087 --> 00:59:30,022 Even after you live out your entire life, 564 00:59:30,024 --> 00:59:32,058 and have all kinds of experiences, 565 00:59:32,060 --> 00:59:36,095 your innocence will never abandon you. 566 00:59:39,967 --> 00:59:44,437 I think you'll grow up to be a man... 567 00:59:44,439 --> 00:59:47,874 who is open and enthusiastic like your father, 568 00:59:47,876 --> 00:59:53,212 but you'll also be a man who's quiet and closed and full... 569 00:59:53,214 --> 00:59:55,448 Like a well in a deserted village. 570 00:59:57,450 --> 00:59:59,384 You can be both. 571 01:00:13,132 --> 01:00:18,737 I felt a terrible dread as if on the distant horizon, 572 01:00:18,739 --> 01:00:21,373 a vague disaster was taking shape. 573 01:00:25,478 --> 01:00:30,414 My mother started having frequent headaches. 574 01:00:30,416 --> 01:00:34,318 Her migraines gave her insomnia. 575 01:00:50,435 --> 01:00:56,106 The doctor prescribed sleeping pills and sedatives... 576 01:00:57,442 --> 01:00:59,844 But nothing helped. 577 01:01:14,024 --> 01:01:17,060 Please don't be angry with me, Amos. 578 01:01:17,062 --> 01:01:19,462 It's a little hard for me right now. 579 01:01:19,464 --> 01:01:22,866 You see how much I'm trying to make things right. 580 01:01:31,841 --> 01:01:33,542 Thank you, Amos. 581 01:01:33,544 --> 01:01:35,978 I know I can rely on you completely. 582 01:01:38,414 --> 01:01:40,082 - Good night. - Good night. 583 01:01:53,162 --> 01:01:54,496 Papa? 584 01:01:54,498 --> 01:01:57,466 Sleep... sleep. 585 01:02:03,072 --> 01:02:05,973 I'm so lucky. I'm so lucky. 586 01:02:48,916 --> 01:02:51,952 It's 7:00, and these are the headlines. 587 01:02:51,954 --> 01:02:55,088 This year too, there is an urgent need to find homes 588 01:02:55,090 --> 01:03:00,093 for innocent children with foster families across the country. 589 01:03:00,095 --> 01:03:05,632 Last year alone, 50,000 children were placed in homes. 590 01:03:05,634 --> 01:03:10,235 Despite this achievement, there are still 20,000 children, 591 01:03:10,237 --> 01:03:14,239 who will have to spend the winter months in tents. 592 01:03:14,241 --> 01:03:18,344 10,000 children ages 5-12, 593 01:03:18,346 --> 01:03:21,347 need temporary housing this winter 594 01:03:21,349 --> 01:03:24,650 across the country. 595 01:03:24,652 --> 01:03:29,121 The roots for children project appeals to every home in Israel 596 01:03:29,123 --> 01:03:32,658 to host a child from the camps... 597 01:03:57,616 --> 01:04:00,018 She's punishing herself. 598 01:04:00,020 --> 01:04:02,520 Just to punish me. 599 01:04:05,290 --> 01:04:07,238 I have done. 600 01:04:07,393 --> 01:04:08,659 I have done. 601 01:04:08,661 --> 01:04:12,963 I have been doing. I have been doing. 602 01:04:12,965 --> 01:04:15,499 I should have done. 603 01:04:15,501 --> 01:04:20,137 I should have done. I should have been doing. 604 01:05:08,185 --> 01:05:09,585 Go... 605 01:05:11,221 --> 01:05:14,155 Go play a little outside. 606 01:05:19,128 --> 01:05:21,362 But be careful. 607 01:05:21,364 --> 01:05:23,198 There are all sorts out there. 608 01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,101 Not all women are as kind and honest as you are. 609 01:05:37,213 --> 01:05:40,381 You can come home whenever you like. 610 01:05:48,790 --> 01:05:50,791 Do you need anything? 611 01:05:50,793 --> 01:05:52,025 Amos is here. 612 01:07:12,805 --> 01:07:16,708 My father and I told people that she had the flu 613 01:07:16,710 --> 01:07:19,144 or a particular sensitivity to sunlight, 614 01:07:19,146 --> 01:07:22,313 or that she gets very tired. 615 01:07:22,315 --> 01:07:26,483 We didn't tell anyone what we both knew. 616 01:07:26,485 --> 01:07:29,153 The only one who knew was my mother's best friend. 617 01:07:29,155 --> 01:07:30,854 Amos. 618 01:07:30,856 --> 01:07:33,157 You're a ray of sunshine, you know? 619 01:07:33,159 --> 01:07:35,759 Your mother says that you're her light. 620 01:07:48,907 --> 01:07:52,542 You're such a clever, sensitive child. 621 01:07:53,159 --> 01:07:56,704 You know, I have a feeling... 622 01:07:56,739 --> 01:07:59,916 that when you grow up you will be a writer. 623 01:08:01,252 --> 01:08:05,029 I won't be a writer. I'm not sensitive! 624 01:08:05,223 --> 01:08:09,525 I'll be a farmer or a dog-poisoner with a syringe full of poison. 625 01:08:12,463 --> 01:08:15,732 - Have a good day. - You too... 626 01:08:32,482 --> 01:08:36,418 Do you know what happened when Tarzan met the cowboys and Indians? 627 01:08:36,420 --> 01:08:38,787 What happened? 628 01:08:38,789 --> 01:08:43,392 Tarzan watched from a tree as the cowboys and Indians fought below. 629 01:08:43,394 --> 01:08:48,730 A cowboy caught a snake by the throat 630 01:08:48,732 --> 01:08:51,733 and poured its venom into the Indian's mouth! 631 01:08:52,415 --> 01:08:56,853 So the Indian grabbed a thorny cactus, and stabbed... 632 01:08:58,241 --> 01:09:01,078 The cowboy in his blue eyes. 633 01:09:01,927 --> 01:09:07,822 Tarzan watched from above, and thought about what to do. 634 01:09:09,985 --> 01:09:11,944 And then what? 635 01:09:13,422 --> 01:09:15,289 I'll tell you tomorrow. 636 01:09:19,494 --> 01:09:22,730 The story was great. Where did you hear it? 637 01:09:24,666 --> 01:09:27,767 Hey, isn't that your dad? 638 01:09:27,769 --> 01:09:30,003 Where? 639 01:10:56,021 --> 01:10:57,922 Ah! 640 01:11:47,103 --> 01:11:49,405 Amos, you're being very good. 641 01:11:49,407 --> 01:11:51,907 Your mother has a terrible headache. 642 01:11:51,909 --> 01:11:54,076 Keep your voice down. 643 01:11:54,078 --> 01:11:57,413 And no running around, okay? 644 01:11:57,415 --> 01:11:58,764 Get the door. 645 01:12:12,795 --> 01:12:15,930 - Do you need anything? - No, thank you. 646 01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:18,010 Then why don't you lie down? 647 01:12:18,045 --> 01:12:21,010 I'm fine like this, thank you. 648 01:12:21,171 --> 01:12:23,771 - Do you see a doctor? - I don't need a doctor. 649 01:12:23,773 --> 01:12:26,107 - Mother, leave her alone. - Don't interfere, Arieh. 650 01:12:26,109 --> 01:12:29,444 She's being so dramatic, as if she deserves the moon. 651 01:12:29,446 --> 01:12:32,514 So what? Moods. Melancholia. 652 01:12:32,516 --> 01:12:35,016 It just shows that her heart is still young. 653 01:12:35,018 --> 01:12:37,451 As if she's the only one having a hard time here! 654 01:12:37,453 --> 01:12:40,546 That the rest of us are living in luxury! 655 01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:05,537 Behold, I call heaven and earth today to bear witness 656 01:14:05,539 --> 01:14:08,239 that I have set before you life and death, 657 01:14:08,241 --> 01:14:11,275 the blessing and the curse. 658 01:14:11,277 --> 01:14:13,744 Therefore choose life, 659 01:14:13,746 --> 01:14:18,048 so that you and your descendants may live. 660 01:14:52,983 --> 01:14:54,717 Did you finish your homework? 661 01:14:57,655 --> 01:14:59,756 Fania? 662 01:15:01,859 --> 01:15:03,593 How did you sleep? 663 01:15:03,595 --> 01:15:06,851 Well, I finally slept well. 664 01:15:06,886 --> 01:15:10,355 The new pills must be working. 665 01:15:10,502 --> 01:15:12,335 I had so many dreams. 666 01:15:14,604 --> 01:15:18,840 One was about someone I hadn't thought about in years. 667 01:15:18,842 --> 01:15:21,810 In Rovno, there was a rich fur trader 668 01:15:21,812 --> 01:15:24,946 who even got orders from Paris, 669 01:15:24,948 --> 01:15:29,284 because he had a rare type of fur, the silver fox. 670 01:15:29,286 --> 01:15:33,588 Furs that sparkled like frost in the moonlight. 671 01:15:34,957 --> 01:15:36,625 But one day... 672 01:15:36,627 --> 01:15:39,361 the merchant became a strict vegetarian. 673 01:15:39,363 --> 01:15:43,131 He left his home and built a small cabin in the woods, 674 01:15:43,133 --> 01:15:45,966 because he felt sorry 675 01:15:45,968 --> 01:15:49,236 for the thousands of foxes hunters had killed for his furs. 676 01:15:50,672 --> 01:15:52,900 And then he disappeared completely. 677 01:15:55,143 --> 01:15:59,168 When my sisters and I wanted to scare each other, 678 01:15:59,203 --> 01:16:03,041 the three of us lay on the carpet in the dark. 679 01:16:03,052 --> 01:16:06,053 And took turns telling... 680 01:16:06,055 --> 01:16:10,991 how the man who was once a rich furrier 681 01:16:10,993 --> 01:16:14,095 now roams naked through the forest. 682 01:16:14,097 --> 01:16:16,363 Maybe he has rabies? 683 01:16:16,365 --> 01:16:19,265 Maybe he howls bloodcurdling cries? 684 01:16:19,267 --> 01:16:23,937 But anyone who meets the fox-man in the forest at night... 685 01:16:23,939 --> 01:16:28,007 his hair instantly turns white in terror. 686 01:16:28,009 --> 01:16:30,076 Excuse me. What is that supposed to be? 687 01:16:30,078 --> 01:16:32,982 An allegory? An old-wives' tale? 688 01:16:36,050 --> 01:16:37,684 Sorry. 689 01:16:37,686 --> 01:16:41,955 Don't be late for school or work, boys. 690 01:16:47,062 --> 01:16:50,796 What's the matter with you? What's your problem? 691 01:16:50,798 --> 01:16:54,333 I'm sorry. It's all my fault. 692 01:17:36,441 --> 01:17:42,393 Today I decided to invite the two men in my life to lunch at a restaurant. 693 01:17:42,748 --> 01:17:45,669 - Does dad know? - We'll surprise him. 694 01:17:45,704 --> 01:17:51,044 Let's go to his office, and drag him out like a moth from a book. 695 01:17:51,490 --> 01:17:52,956 Come. 696 01:17:55,493 --> 01:17:59,029 Today, you'll be my cavalier. 697 01:17:59,031 --> 01:18:01,832 - What's a cavalier? - A cavalier is a knight. 698 01:18:01,834 --> 01:18:03,433 Cheval is French for horse, 699 01:18:03,435 --> 01:18:06,002 and chevalier is a knight on horseback. 700 01:18:20,451 --> 01:18:21,852 Thank you. 701 01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,194 Arieh. 702 01:18:39,536 --> 01:18:41,437 Excuse me for a minute. 703 01:18:44,841 --> 01:18:47,499 What happened? Are my parents all right? 704 01:18:47,534 --> 01:18:50,755 - Your parents? Is everyone all right? - Yes, everyone is fine. 705 01:18:51,068 --> 01:18:55,174 - We're surprising you. - We're taking you out to lunch. 706 01:18:58,821 --> 01:19:01,055 Sure. Why not? 707 01:19:03,001 --> 01:19:04,587 Today I'm hosting, 708 01:19:04,622 --> 01:19:07,867 and I'd love if you ordered the most expensive items on the menu. 709 01:19:16,171 --> 01:19:18,072 Are you ready? 710 01:19:18,074 --> 01:19:19,274 Yes. 711 01:19:19,276 --> 01:19:21,156 Vegetable soup, 712 01:19:21,191 --> 01:19:25,107 - and chicken with mashed potatoes, please. - The same for me, please. 713 01:19:28,016 --> 01:19:29,590 Fania? 714 01:19:30,540 --> 01:19:31,862 Fania? 715 01:19:36,024 --> 01:19:38,959 Just some white rice, please. 716 01:19:38,961 --> 01:19:41,035 And a cup of black coffee. 717 01:19:43,231 --> 01:19:45,465 Thank you. 718 01:20:11,925 --> 01:20:14,093 Fania? 719 01:20:14,095 --> 01:20:18,297 Fania? Fanitchka? 720 01:20:27,107 --> 01:20:29,308 Mummy, are you all right? 721 01:20:46,125 --> 01:20:48,927 She needs total rest. 722 01:20:48,929 --> 01:20:51,096 I'll take care of it. 723 01:20:51,098 --> 01:20:52,597 Thank you, doctor. 724 01:21:12,517 --> 01:21:15,185 These are the new pills. 725 01:21:18,690 --> 01:21:20,524 They'll help you sleep. 726 01:21:23,962 --> 01:21:26,296 Have some more water. 727 01:21:57,261 --> 01:22:00,096 I don't know how to help you. 728 01:22:00,098 --> 01:22:02,331 I'm not your responsibility. 729 01:22:02,333 --> 01:22:06,388 Fania, I don't know how to help you. 730 01:22:07,670 --> 01:22:10,672 Maybe I'll take you to Tel Aviv 731 01:22:10,674 --> 01:22:13,675 to be with your sisters and get some fresh air. 732 01:22:15,711 --> 01:22:19,414 Yes, fresh air. 733 01:22:28,257 --> 01:22:32,394 It's not reparations. They can't keep what they stole from us. 734 01:22:32,396 --> 01:22:36,363 And we need the money to absorb the survivors. 735 01:22:36,365 --> 01:22:38,365 What are you talking about? 736 01:22:38,367 --> 01:22:42,770 It's blood money. We can't sell them forgiveness. 737 01:22:48,643 --> 01:22:51,445 A few days in Tel Aviv and you'll be good as new. 738 01:22:51,447 --> 01:22:54,748 No wonder you're miserable. You live in Jerusalem. 739 01:22:54,750 --> 01:22:59,453 We're going to pamper you. All you have to do is rest. 740 01:23:01,790 --> 01:23:04,016 Fania, maybe you'll try some cake? 741 01:23:05,127 --> 01:23:07,228 I'm not hungry. 742 01:23:07,230 --> 01:23:09,095 You're not eating at all. 743 01:23:09,097 --> 01:23:10,797 You sound like mother. 744 01:23:38,692 --> 01:23:40,826 The change of scenery will do her good. 745 01:23:40,828 --> 01:23:45,264 She's from Jerusalem. She doesn't even know what a beach is. 746 01:23:45,266 --> 01:23:48,133 Summer here would be too much. 747 01:23:48,135 --> 01:23:50,402 It's true. 748 01:23:55,142 --> 01:23:59,548 That night, the Ayalon River overflowed the banks, 749 01:23:59,583 --> 01:24:04,249 and flooded part of Tel Aviv. 750 01:24:43,721 --> 01:24:49,392 My mother grew up in an ethereal culture of misted beauty... 751 01:24:49,394 --> 01:24:51,861 whose wings were finally dashed 752 01:24:51,863 --> 01:24:57,634 on the harsh Jerusalem stone, hot and dusty. 753 01:25:10,748 --> 01:25:15,517 Twenty years after completing her studies in Rovno, 754 01:25:15,519 --> 01:25:21,468 that romantic schoolgirl, was confronted by daily life, 755 01:25:21,859 --> 01:25:26,395 the heat waves, poverty, and violence, 756 01:25:26,397 --> 01:25:29,265 diapers, migraines, 757 01:25:29,267 --> 01:25:32,701 ration lines, marriage. 758 01:25:32,703 --> 01:25:38,540 The promise of her childhood was trampled underfoot 759 01:25:38,542 --> 01:25:41,777 and ridiculed by the monotony of life itself. 760 01:26:08,237 --> 01:26:14,209 Perhaps when life failed to fill the promises of her youth, 761 01:26:14,311 --> 01:26:17,477 my mother began to envision death 762 01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:22,983 as a protective, soothing lover. 763 01:27:29,982 --> 01:27:34,886 My version of her story would have ended differently. 764 01:28:03,081 --> 01:28:05,849 But it was her story to tell. 765 01:28:16,094 --> 01:28:18,362 Is your father home? 766 01:28:18,364 --> 01:28:20,864 There's a call from Tel Aviv. It's urgent, please! 767 01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,422 A few years after my mother's death, 768 01:29:20,424 --> 01:29:25,594 I left my father and all of Jerusalem, 769 01:29:25,596 --> 01:29:27,862 changed my name, 770 01:29:27,864 --> 01:29:30,731 and went to kibbutz hulda on my own. 771 01:29:39,774 --> 01:29:42,610 My mother's dream, 772 01:29:42,612 --> 01:29:44,778 milk and honey, 773 01:29:44,780 --> 01:29:48,148 make the desert bloom, 774 01:29:48,150 --> 01:29:49,617 pioneer. 775 01:29:49,619 --> 01:29:51,051 Hello. 776 01:29:51,053 --> 01:29:52,786 Amos? 777 01:29:56,191 --> 01:29:58,892 Hello! 778 01:30:00,961 --> 01:30:02,929 You're taller than me! 779 01:30:21,215 --> 01:30:23,716 Can you hand me my suitcase, please? 780 01:30:26,020 --> 01:30:27,887 Thank you. 781 01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:50,742 Though I forced myself to learn how to drive a tractor... 782 01:30:52,245 --> 01:30:55,013 Lay irrigation hoses, 783 01:30:55,015 --> 01:30:58,116 hit the target with a Czech rifle, 784 01:30:58,118 --> 01:31:02,086 I still did not manage to transform myself. 785 01:31:10,862 --> 01:31:15,266 No one was taken in by my suntan. 786 01:31:17,135 --> 01:31:21,872 They all knew perfectly well, and I knew it myself, 787 01:31:21,874 --> 01:31:25,276 that even when my skin was bronzed, 788 01:31:25,278 --> 01:31:29,180 I would still be pale on the inside. 789 01:31:31,583 --> 01:31:34,050 This is my school now. 790 01:31:34,052 --> 01:31:37,587 The only way to keep a dream whole, 791 01:31:37,589 --> 01:31:40,290 hopeful and not disappointing, 792 01:31:40,292 --> 01:31:43,827 is to never try to live it out. 793 01:31:43,829 --> 01:31:47,664 A fulfilled dream is a disappointing dream. 794 01:31:49,300 --> 01:31:54,137 This disappointment is in the nature of dreams. 795 01:32:19,667 --> 01:32:22,184 Mother 796 01:32:31,259 --> 01:32:37,233 - Subtitle - Sync, fix: titler