A story between the heart and the brain: Yael and Eilon are siblings in their mid thirties, both tall, thin and talented. While Eilon is the ‘smart’ one, Yael drops out of school and becomes a super model. Alone at a shooting session in Japan at the age of seventeen, she suffers a nervous breakdown. Getting better, she starts filming all that moves. Eilon is a talented artist and recent young father. His life changes overnight when two youngsters crash into his car. For a while it’s not clear whether he will survive at all. Through Yael's camera we witness the siblings' and soulmates' stories, a tapestry of beauty, light and movements emerges.

We learn that Eilon has severe head injury, and prolonged loss of consciousness brings a lot of rage and pain. Through Yael’s point of view we see Eilon's rehabilitation. The story moves between New York, where she lives and still works as a model, and Tel Aviv, where he picks up the pieces of his life. Yael’s life is changed as well, and both, in the most different of ways, have to undertake arduous journeys to return to themselves again.

During the difficult rehabilitation process Eilon's wife leaves him - she is Yael's best friend, a model, too. Eilon decides to continue the rehabilitation on his own, against all odds. He moves into a simple studio apartment, tries to reconstruct lost parts of his memory, and begins to paint intensively. He sculpts all of the pain that has built up inside him, and his paintings are a recurring expression of the search for the things he lost, and a replacement for the loss of words.


Jerusalem (comp.)