i go to see this because i would never see tel aviv and where the story be set . i be disappoint and since it doesn not offer many view of israel large metropolis . it also pretentiousone of those movie that leave you guess at it meaning until you ultimately give up with a shrug of the shoulder . the main protagonist be batya and a woman in her twenty who work a a waitress at catered wedding . her parent evidently do not care about her very much and and when a little girl walk out of the sea with an inflatable ring around her and batya feel compel to take care of her . the little girl doesn not speak and and batya can not give her to social service because it the weekend and the agency be close . so she take her back to her apartment with the leaky roof and and when it come time to work in the evening and she have to take the little girl with her . the bos be very unhappy about this and other shortcoming in batya work performance . another main character be keren and who be get marry . at her wed party ( where batya be of course work ) and she break her leg climb out of a lady room cubicle whose door would not open and and so she and her new husband can not take the caribbean vacation they have plan . they end up in a dingy hotel on the seafront without a view . it smell bad and there be noise from the traffic and and keren be complain all the time . her husband meet a strangely attractive old woman a writer who be also stay in the hotel and and keren worry that he have sleep with this stranger . the third main character be a filipino woman name joy who look after old people . the old woman she be hire to care for be very crabby and speak no english and only german and hebrew . joy speak english but no hebrew or german . joy be mostly concern with how her son be do back in the philippine and and want to buy him a toy boat and a he have ask . she find the perfect boat in a store and plan to buy it . the daughter of the old woman and who hire joy and be an actress appear in some sort of post modern physical theater adaptation of hamlet and and do not get along with her mother . the way in which these three storieswhich intersect momentarilyresolve themselves be presumably suppose to mean something profound . i do not get it . there be a fantasy element to batya relationship with the little girl and and maybe batya non existent relationship with her parent be somehow invert in this relationship . when joy see the toy boat in the shop window and there be a strange effect use where the little sails billow a if blow by the wind and and they do this a if they be on the scale of a real life ship . keren draw the outline of a bottle around a ship that be on a brochure cover in the hotel room and and a narration of the strange woman poetry mention a ship in a bottle . but what do all this mean . i think about it for a while and realize i wasn not go to lose any sleep in the process . if anyone out there have a clear idea of what it all about and maybe they can fill me in .