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The human resources manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery, estranged from his family, is put under pressure when the death of a foreign worker in a terrorist bombing goes apparently unnoticed for almost a month. In order to avert a PR scandal, he is assigned to escort the woman's coffin back to her hometown in Romania. On his quest to find anyone who will claim and bury the body, he is joined by unlikely allies. Enjoy the psychological transformation of the characters, who learn that there is a human story behind a name.

Adapted from a work by celebrated Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, this comic-tragic film won five Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was Israels submission for the foreign film Oscar.

FIVE Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was Israel's submission for the foreign film Oscar.