Irit Sheleg

A lonely middle-aged woman divides her time between her monotonous job at the supermarket and taking care of her disabled mother and estranged family members. The mysterious murder of the head cashier at the supermarket, sends her on a journey into the depths of her repressed desire revealing her deep longing for warmth and human connection.

Lemale et ha’halal tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream-cometrue, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. Everything changes when an offer is proposed to match Yochay—the late Esther’s husband—to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it’s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty...

After she’s left at the altar on her wedding day, a young woman trusts her faith and sets a goal to become married again in less than five weeks.

An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An ancounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives.

A young woman finds herself forced into becoming an unwilling disciple of a descendant of the Marquis de Sade.