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Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the Mendelman family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. On Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child, Mordechay. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira's promised match. Everything changes when a match is proposed to Yochay-Esther's late husband-to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it's too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider getting married again. When the girls' mother finds out that Yochay may marry the widow and move to Belgium with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will have to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty. She will find out that the void which she must choose exists only within her heart.

Genres: Drama

Starring: Hadas Yaron, Renana Raz, Yiftach Klein

Released: July 1, 2012

Runtime: 90.0

Popularity Rating: 1.647

Avi Chai fund, Israel Film Fund, Norma Productions, Reshet Broadcasting, Sundance

Israel

Shira Mendelman Hadas Yaron
Esther Mendelman Renana Raz
Yochay Yiftach Klein
Rivka Irit Sheleg
Razia Israeli

Art — Art Direction: Uri Aminov
Camera — Director of Photography: Asaf Sudri
Costume & Make-Up — Costume Design: Hani Gurevitch
Directing — Director: Rama Burshtein
Editing — Editor: Sharon Elovic
Production — Casting: Michal Koren
Production — Line Producer: Adar Shafran
Production — Line Producer: Roni Abramovski
Production — Producer: Assaf Amir
Sound — Original Music Composer: Yitzhak Azulay
Writing — Writer: Rama Burshtein