[1] Yigal is a taxi driver with a burning desire to visit Paris, yet his fear of flying stands in the way of him booking a 5-hour flight from Tel Aviv.

[2] Utopia, the French chain of art cinemas caused a wave of controversy when it announced it was removing the Israeli film from scheduling in light of Israel's involvement in the Gaza flotilla raid.

Anne-Marie Faucon, co-founder of the chain said in an interview “It was a protest of our whole company,” (..) “We show many Israeli films, we organize a lot of debates on what happens in the world, but this time we reacted very strongly and in a very emotional way.” Richard Prasquier, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions countered that it represents a continuing trend of the “delegitimization of Israel” among the French intelligentsia.

Boeken made the move “in solidarity with the censored.”[1] The French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand also condemned the ban, expressing in a letter to Faucon “my incomprehension and my disapproval”.

The film was made by Simone Bitton, a Moroccan-born French-Israeli doctor and self-described pacifist who served with the Israel Defense Forces as part of the nation's conscription programme.