Coming home from the psych ward to find your life moved on without you. Brutal.
A young Israeli suffers a personal crisis after being released from a psychiatric hospital and returns home to find that his wife has left him taking their son with her.
Acting
Isaac Gayer's raw, unvarnished breakdown of a man unmoored.
Direction
Barbash's unflinching gaze at Israeli society's mental health stigma.
Director
Uri Barbash
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare 1980s Israeli films to confront mental health stigma directly, predating broader societal conversations by decades.
Barbash shot on location in Jerusalem's actual psychiatric discharge corridors, using non-professional extras who had lived the experience.
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