This brave, fierce Israeli film, an attack upon the oppressive character of ultra-orthodox Judaism, centres on a deeply sincere Haredic rabbi for whom it's obsessively Torah, Torah, Torah all day long. His literal, fundamentalist, narrow-minded reading of texts estranges him from his charming young wife and destroys his devoted, delightfully open-minded young son, first spiritually, then physically. The rabbi is played by Assi Dayan, the 64-year-old actor son of charismatic Israeli hero General Moshe Dayan, he of the famous black eye-patch. All three actors are excellent.