Danny Ben Menahem

Boaz, a reserve soldier, returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved in the lucrative business of producing memorabilia of this kind and does not hesitate exploiting the grief feelings of the survivors and symbolically becomes a "vulture," even in his romance with the dead hero's girlfriend.

Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi. Each one of these in his own unique, special way, is trying to improve in life. In the end, their desires become revealing dreams that all wish to attain or, at least, to get close to their objectives. The heterogeneous group consisting of Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi wake to reality and, in Zur Hadassim, they discover that their dream has always been and always will be ?close to our heart, but far from our reach?.

Negev Desert, Israel, 1987. Bashir Abu Rabi'a works as a pyrotechnics and special effects assistant on the film Rambo III, starring Sylvester Stallone, a shoot that will have far-reaching consequences for the local Bedouin population.

Boaz, a reserve soldier, returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved in the lucrative business of producing memorabilia of this kind and does not hesitate exploiting the grief feelings of the survivors and symbolically becomes a "vulture," even in his romance with the dead hero's girlfriend.

Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi. Each one of these in his own unique, special way, is trying to improve in life. In the end, their desires become revealing dreams that all wish to attain or, at least, to get close to their objectives. The heterogeneous group consisting of Shaul, Etti, Illana and Eddi wake to reality and, in Zur Hadassim, they discover that their dream has always been and always will be ?close to our heart, but far from our reach?.