The film focuses the problems of sephardic Jews in Israel. Three women, three generations who struggle to survive, to have a meaningful life and to express their voice in the new Israeli society, which is undergoing a process of social crumbling and fragmentation while at the same time its loosing its socialist beliefs.
A society that marginalizes culturally, socially and economically 50 percent of its population (the oriental Jews who are considered as the »blacks«) just because of their origin, their skin colour and their cultural background. The director’s memories are shown in the character of Elinor, a 15-year old girl who lives in Jaffa but studies in a middle-class Ashkenazi school in the north of Tel Aviv. The stories of the director’s 89-years old grandmother Ida inspired her to travel to the Balkans to a Greek Village, where Ida was born and to Bulgaria, where she survived the Holocaust.
