Ora a middle aged mother is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofers release from Israeli army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking she sets out for a hike in the Galilee leaving no forwarding information for the notifiers who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband Ilan she drags along an unlikely companion their former best friend and her former lover Avram once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days leave being offered by their commander a chance act that sent Avram into Egypt and the Yom Kippur War where he was brutally tortured as a POW