Story Tales

Anat, a stripper in a nightclub and a single mother, is mulling over the ups and downs of the last, including her involvement in an unsolved murder case, one which made waves in the Tel Aviv's Diamond Exchange. Ya'akov, a diamond merchant, takes Anat out of the strip club and installs her as his secretary. Things get complicated when he brings in a partner, Motti, whose charms Anat falls for at first sight.<br><br>Anat has a difficult relationship with her teenage daughter Natalie (Mor Polenhauer) who requests to leave their home for the school dormitories.<br><br> Following a period of steep recession at the Diamond Exchange, Motti and Ya'akov are having difficulties staying afloat. Anat finds it tough to maneuver between hidden loyalties, falling apart under the strain and finding herself involved in a murder. Defeated, she returns to the Strip Club. Paradoxically, her separation from her daughter is the only ray of light to shine on the film's conclusion.

Two married couples live in Tel Aviv, Tommy and Lia, Ronnie and Dana, good friends for some years.Tommy and Ronnie met on a Cinema course, creating a Film Society which is marking 4 years of existence. Dana, an actress who is making her first forays into Television, endured a stormy 3-month relationship with Tommy while they studied together, ending with her landing in Ronnie's lap. Tommy brought Lia, an émigré from Russia, to their wedding; then a student and today working on her Doctorate in Literature.  Three months have passed since their own wedding.  Things unfold when the four meet at Tommy and Lia's to celebrate Dana's 29th Birthday.

Shlomit and Danny have lost their son, Eitan. Danny tries to cope with the grief and goes to a Support Group for bereaved parents, while Shlomit remains in the house, enraged and gloomy, obsessively tending the flowerbeds in the back yard. <br>From out of nowhere, a young woman enters the life of the couple - Diana, who is carrying Eitan's child in her womb.<br>Danny reacts excitedly, hoping to raise his grandchild when he is born, while Shlomit pours out her wrath onto Diana, jealous of the close relationship forged between her and Danny. When the two women finally face up to each other, hatred and suspicion are replaced by a friendship which changes the way they both see the world.

Tammi has not been at her best of late.Even Ehud Barak’s victory in the recent Elections has not improved her mood, and she really does not feel like going to that barbeque party where her friends will only insult her. Ronnie, her husband,insists that she goes. He really wants to celebrate the fact that “Israel is back to right hands”, and is fed up of his wife’s self-neglect and low energy. She wasn’t always this way, and he doesn't quite understand what has happened to her. At the party,in the backyard of their good friends Shira and Jonathan, the truth comes out - The lies that ”perfect couples” tell each other and tell themselves disgust Tammi to the point where she can no longer hold her feelings in. In an act of desperation- which also serves as an act of revelation, a sign of life from a woman who feels dead inside– she brutally and unequivocally shatters their illusions of the life worth celebrating.