Before watching this, an Israeli friend warned me that films from Israel are typically depressing. But I was tricked by the dvd cover and movie description indicating that two women actually fall in love and have a happy ending. Once again, that's not the case.

I'd like to say that this film is a unique love story between an Israeli woman who has just left her husband and the African woman who moves in with her. But frankly, the film became one with a very negative message - go back to your boring life without love because you will never have anything better (although your children might).

Nurit (Anat Waxman) drives a bus in a small Israeli town, in an unhappy marriage to a husband who can't keep a job. Finally she leaves him and moves with her son and daughter to Tel Aviv. Working long hours, she takes in a woman to help with the children in exchange for free room and board.

Mushidi (Nthati Moshesh) has a young son back home in Nigeria, and she is working in Israel to make a better life. At first Nurit and Mushidi seem like an odd couple, but their friendship and then a romantic relationship seems to grow very naturally.

Nurit's husband threatens to take the kids, and that's the end of what was a nice romance and an original story. <sigh>