Death of a Poetess

Yasmine is a nurse at an elder-care facility, and her story is revealed in the course of the interrogation: She left her home to supposedly go to work the night shift, but ended up at a beach-front bar, where she met Leni in a fraught pickup scene.

The two women share their respective despairs – Leni has an unrelenting sense of regret about someone she won't talk about, and Yasmine feels trapped by her role as wife and mother, which is not her desire but rather the societal expectation of her.

The encounter between the two women ends in Leni's death, which in hindsight it seems was the point of her entire day of arranging her affairs.

However, the interrogator refuses to accept that Yasmine – who does not live up to his expectations as a wife and mother, nor as an Arab woman – is not responsible for the death of the respected academic.

[1] Uri Klein, however, writing for Ha'aretz, felt that the film had a "strained" quality, and faltered at times.