In Tel Aviv in the present day, Shira (Hadas Yaron), daughter of rabbi Aharon (Chaim Sharir) has just turned eighteen, and is in the earliest stages of being matched with a man that if all goes well, she’ll be married to (although she hasn’t met him yet). Her older sister Esther (Ranana Raz), has been married to Yochay (Yiftach Klein) for a few years, and is about to give birth to her first child. Tragically, however, she dies in childbirth, leaving a distraught Yochay to care for the baby alone.
There’s pressure from the community for him to remarry soon, and soon a potential match emerges, a widow with two children of her own, who lives in Belgium. Fearing the prospect of her grandchild being moved away, Esther’s mother Ritka (Irit Sheleg) suggests that he marries Shira instead… It’s essentially a sort of Jane Austen-ish marriage plot – will Shira give into the wishes of her family and marry Yochay, who’s warming up to the idea? Or will she let her brother-in-law take her nephew to Belgium so she can find a more suitable match, closer to her own age, as her independently-minded great-aunt Hanna advocates?
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