A troubled family must face facts when tragedy strikes their son's desolate military post.

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

Four short stories unfold in a sleepy Jerusalem neighborhood, where everyday troubles collide with one looming misfortune that threatens to tie them all together.