A poetry-loving elementary school teacher and single mother eagerly awaits her son's army discharge and the long-dreamed-of trip to India they planned together. On the long-awaited day, a soldier is abducted on the Lebanese border and a new war breaks out. Her war-traumatized father begins to deteriorate, and her son calls to say that all discharges have been canceled. As their once symbiotic bond unravels and he returns to the border, she finds herself trapped between a broken father and a son racing toward danger. In a final, desperate attempt to stop the tragedy, she takes matters into her own hands just as he is about to cross into Lebanon.

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