A debut feature that heralds a strong new iconoclastic voice in Israeli cinema. Elite Zexer's drama of a mother and daughter, both in rebellion against the traditional strictures of Bedouin life.  Jalia is charged with making a wedding celebration for her husband's second, much younger (much-resented) younger new bride - in the midst of which her daughter Layla's romance with a university student comes to life. Set in the vast, often gorgeous Negev Desert in southern Israel

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