In the film's opening monologue, Robbie states the following words that express frustration with the portrayal of LGBTQ characters in Israeli cinema:If the film were to address a social issue or have political awareness, it should feature a soldier, a resident of a development town, someone serving on a destroyer, a war widow, someone who has become religious.
[2]Critic Janet Maslin notes that Gutman portrays Robbie in a powerful and largely unsentimental way, capturing his complexities without resorting to sentimentality, however, she also finds that the film lacks "narrative energy".
[3] The film tells the story of Robbie (Jonathan Sagall), a young gay man who lives with his grandmother and works in her grocery store.
Robbie's grandmother reads women's magazines in German and plays Rummy to the sound of Strauss's music.
She herself is ashamed of Robbie but tolerates his homosexuality, preferring to ignore the men he brings home and avoid asking why he regularly visits the park.
[1] Robbie's father, a Holocaust survivor with a heavy foreign accent, tries to explain to his son that the norm is a family with a wife and children, and gay men grow old alone.
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