Change comes in small steps: Tel Ilan is a village in northern Israel. A place somewhat undecided between yesterday and tomorrow, where sensational events are rare. Yet suddenly, the line between the ordinary and the peculiar blurs. Gilli Steiner waits with growing desperation for her nephew, Pessach Kedem hears strange noises, and real estate agent Jossi Sasson is confused—and lost—by a young woman in an old house. Nothing particularly special happens. Or does it? Amos Oz creates a small cosmos in his stories from Tel Ilan. He tells of people and their longings, of their seemingly mundane lives that are only ordinary at first glance. "Ruthless, brilliant. Oz has returned to his chamber plays." Inge Kämmerer, Hessischer Rundfunk.