Release Year: 2008

Duration: 102 min

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This is Israeli filmmaker David Fisher’s chronicle of his attempt to solve a personal mystery and bring a troubled family together. He makes use of a portable camera, a skillful crew and especially his four reluctant brothers to undertake an emotionally challenging search to find a long lost sister. In a creative documentary style with revealing moments of grief and humor, Fisher leads his brothers to uncover the dark secrets of the past, going back 50 years when the state of Israel has just been created and unlawful deeds and wrongdoing were part of its birth pains. Their sister’s disappearance from the hospital two days after her birth was kept a family secret for years. Throughout her life, their mother felt the baby girl had been abducted, but she did not disclose her innermost feelings and fears. In the course of the search, the camera uncovers a unique and intimate but troubled family fighting for its existence.