Ever felt like you truly were on verge of actually murdering a family member or friend who has mistreated you over the years or perhaps just simply drives you mad?? Lily Brooke's family seems out to prove Tolstoy's adage in Anna Karenina with a vengeance, namely that while all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Lily (played by director Kedar) shows up unannounced one evening at her psychiatrist's apartment for an emergency session. Her shrink's angry daughter Talia (Tommy Baremboem) slowly warms up to her as Lily recounts the trauma of the past days. It's a clever structural device to move the action forward: the series of unfortunate events that have recently transpired in Lily's home provide a dark look at a famil riven by mental illness, cruelty and a complete inability to connect with one another in a human way. Her mother Carmela (Mira Awad) is an addict, her father (Eli Denker) abusive, her sister Smadar (Hen Yanni) insane. Not to be outone her brother AVi (Ishai Golan) has incestuous urges that he finds difficult to conceal. And that's just the beginning in Veronica Kedar's superbly acted dark comedy. This one comes from Israel with love-and lots of disfunction.
