Nahum Ashkenazi is a Jewish artist and a released Prisoner of Zion living in Moscow. Nahum feels like an uprooted plant, a foreigner, and alien to the society he lives in. He is unsuccessful in fulfilling his role in family life. Along with his young love, Liza, he decides to leave Russia and immigrate to the Land of Israel with the hope that life will be better. We meet Nahum in Moscow the evening he leaves for Jerusalem as he departs from his ex-wife and son. Two years later in Israel Nahum comes to the realization that his feeling of alienation will follow him wherever he goes. Zlotnikov, in his unique voice, describes with sensitivity and humor the tragedy of immigrants wherever they may be, and allows the spectator a glimpse into the soul of one man who emigrated from Russia to Israel.
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