The family's two children attempt to cope with the difficult situation by distributing Psalms and giving charity, but to no avail.

In contemporary Jerusalem, a small Jewish family leads an ordinary life until following a car accident, the father mysteriously disappears.

The film was released in France by Haut et Court, in Spain, Belgium and Germany and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York[1] the following year.

[2] The jury conducted by Lee Chang Dong wrote the following statement: "The mysterious loss of the father of an average Israeli family brings to the fore a universal problem of today's world - the lack of orientation.

It is left to the individual whether to see this as a human subject matter, an intimate story or a reflection of Israeli society today.