Radical, intense, and multifaceted. An encounter that calls everything into question. Atara is married for the second time, to her great love, but lately, Alex seems to be drifting further away from her. Even greater worries plague her regarding their son, an elite soldier who hardly leaves the house after his last deployment. Perhaps to better understand her family, or perhaps to escape from it, Atara seeks out Rachel, her father's first wife, the great taboo of Atara's childhood. The idealist Rachel seems to embody the past - she fought alongside Atara's father in the underground militia against the British and for an Israeli state. However, the meeting between the two women culminates in a catastrophe in the present. Zeruya Shalev masterfully tells a grand story of love and responsibility.