In the year 1935 Yosef, an ambitious Jewish doctor from Berlin, arrives to a desolate village in a swampy Valley in Northern Palestine. The doctor struggles to save the village from a Malaria epidemic that is spreading over the valley. His focus shifts when he meets Miral’e, a 14-year-old girl, who suffers from an unknown disease and is believed by her family to be possessed by demons. While he is fighting to save the girl with the help of a mysterious substance he finds in the swamp, they bond in a dangerous liaison that makes them cross lines of morality and interferes with nature.
I want to create a world that is shifting from severe realism to a mystical and enchanted atmosphere. In the 30’s, just before the big war. Back then people believed in the possibility of inventing a new kind of man. They strove to explore science and ideology in a way that played with human nature. On this background I’m telling a story of awakening, the wish to stay awake and the slippery slope you will step on if you cross certain lines. Miral’e, the young girl, is detached from her ill body that without warning drowns her into a deep sleep. She is looking for vitality. An older doctor, Yozef, is detached from his body’s needs and had to suppress his desires for years, letting the head be the only organ that rules. His brain and revolutionary ideas may heal her and her youth may heal him. But can they really change their own nature without getting hurt, or without hurting others?
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