Eight years after leaving Israel, Judea Kaminke 65 -year-old, come back to Israel to divorce his wife that hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. meanwhile In the United States , where he now lives and teaches at the university , waiting for him a new wife that is pregnant with his coming baby ,for that Judah want to get a quick divorce and return to his new life . Through his short visit to Israel and the reunion with his family , that he has not seen since he left , we have a quick look and purified on a double crisis at different stages of life. Eight years earlier was Naomi Kaminke her kitchen watched her husband Judea cutting vegetables for salad . Under an everyday occurrence and nondescript that sizzled and bubbled anger demons , fears and frustrations of a long-standing relationship , suddenly , without warning , broke out . Naomi take her husband knife and Judah never recovered from the sudden stab. Fury from his wife , but also from his family that stood by doing nothing to prevent what he calls the " attempted of murder " still drive it , and the encounter with his family is like scratching a scab of a wound that refuses to dry . Judah is convinced that Naomi gave his son and daughter the seed of destruction and that they , like her , sticking to the madness . But whether madness is a unique family of Kaminke Or is the product of life in the family ? And can the family accommodate the madness of the individuals who comprise it ?
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