Drama
Fantasy
Subject:
Love
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Nationalism

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LOVE IN BETWEEN – SYNOPSIS

: The year is 2035. A decade ago, the army of a Messianic Jewish government completed the deportation of all the Palestinians who had lived in East Jerusalem and the occupied territories for generations. Many were murdered, others fled to other countries and thousands were deported to refugee camps in the Judean Mountains. The Palestinian Arab language and culture disappeared from the space. On the ruins of the Palestinian villages and cities, Jewish cities were built, inhabited only by Jews whose memory was erased by the government, so that they no longer remember the victims of the war and the tragic images of death and deportation, made by them.

In order to protect themselves, the Jewish cities are surrounded by walls manned by armed robots and equipped with cameras, and militias of the Remembrance Police patrol the streets and imprison anyone who threatens to remember the past.

Several hundred Palestinians in service positions, whose memory was also erased so that they would have no reason to take revenge, serve as servants in the Jewish cities.

The country is ruled by the supreme council headed by Wasserman, the leader and the war architect, and his deputy and friend Micha Peled. The two are the only ones who have a memory.

In the year 2035, Micah lives in a beautiful Arab house in the Bat Sheva neighborhood, that used to be a Palestinian neighborhood, with his wife Esti, a real estate agent, and their son Jonathan.

10 years earlier, Before the war, At the same house where the Peled family currently lives, a Palestinian family used to live: Daoud, a widower and political activist, his young daughter Nour, and his eldest daughter Amira.

One day, in the year 2035, a breach occurs in the city’s defense system and immediately after that, Yonatan sees a young woman (Nour) fall bleeding at the street of his neighborhood. When Yonatan tells his father about it, Micah is frightened. he knows that what his son sew, is a memory – Nour is a Palestinian girl who lived in their house before the war and her family was deported by him

The appearance of this memory, in a country where memories are forbidden, endangers Yonatan’s life. Micah is convinced that a political enemy planted the memory in his son to remove him from his position. So, he takes his son to a clinic where this memory is erased. But few days later, Yonatan meets Nour again, this time she appears in his room, claiming its hers. The things she says shakes everything he knows about his own history.

Yonatan confronts his father and demands answers about the past, and Micah erases his son memory again. But then, Amira, Nour’s sister, who works as a made in a memory erasure clinic, tells Yonatan about the war and the execution of her sister and begs him save her sister Nour’s life. Yonatan agrees to do so and embarks on a journey through his memory, where he returns to the moment before Nour was killed, and discovers that his father is about to shot her.  Yonatan protects Nour with his body, and demands from his father not to shoot her.

Micah is in great distress – if he doesn’t kill Nour, everyone will know the truth about erasing their memories and the council’s rule will be put in real danger and if he shoots, his beloved son may die

Wasserman appears and urges Micha to shoot his son, but Micah is unable to do so, and kills Wasserman