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A devout woman is living with her family in the Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. During the day, while her husband and children are at school, she is left alone in the mountain. She goes for walks in the cemetery, trying to escape the endless house work.

One night, out of frustration, she storms out of the house climbing the cemetery, running wherever her feet will carry her. To her surprise, she is exposed to an unsettling sexual scene. Stirred by this image, she starts exploring this new realm of the mountain, while trying to keep a normal face during her daytime routine. Until she can’t anymore.

Avraham is a small–time contractor who’s trying to make it into the big–time, and therefor gambles on projects that exceed his capabilities. His family lives in the shadow of his career ambitions, until one of these projects finds him drowning in debts he cannot pay back .
Under the threat of the father’s financial difficulties they rediscover the strength of their family ties.

Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert.
A lost band in a lost town. Not many people remember this. It wasn’t that important.

According to the tradition, the period of mourning begins after funeral: the complete family goes to the home of the late one, and nobody must leave this place during seven days. One must dedicate oneself to prayer for the soul of the deceased and tell him goodbye. During one week, they are going to sleep together on slim mattresses, to eat a light food, without shaving, taking a shower, or even changing clothes.
The mournes are the six brothers, the two sisters, the spouse and her two children as well as the mother, To these twelve persons are added the brothers wives, and some close friends.

The action takes place during the 1991 Gulf war, and the missiles of Saddam Hussein constitute a permanent threat. The family factory of painting on aluminum, which is their mutual source of income, is at the edge of bankruptcy and debts pile up.

Vis a vis these multiple pressures these << Seven Days>> are going to put to the test family structure. All its members have to unite and show solidarity towards their fellows.
They should mourn their deceased brother and put aside any material worries, but instead of that, ther reject the idea of death and the purpose of their meeting, to leave place to their old demons.

Ilan Ben Natan, a 58-year-old Professor of Astrophysics, is married to the young and lovely Naomi. He is obsessively in love with her, and keeps track of her every move. One day Ilan discovers that his deepest fears have come true. Naomi has a lover. He seeks the advice of his elderly German-born mother, who suggests he leave the matter alone and allow the affair to die out on its own. But Ilan is unable to control himself. He follows his wife and is tortured by what he sees. One day, Ilan goes behind his wife’s back, confronts her lover and commits a horrible act, the consequences of which will weigh heavily on his conscience.