1970’s. Esther, a tormented American in her forties, receives a letter upon the death of her mother: she has to find a woman who lived in the 1930’s in Palestine — then under the British Mandate — and who holds a secret about her life. Esther begins her search in Israel helped by Zayde, a university professor with a peculiar past.

1930’s. A settlers’ village, the atmosphere of a new world. Moshe, a farmer, widower with two children, hires a woman to help him out. The arrival of Yehudit changes the life of Moshe and two other men: Yaakov, a romantic farmer, and Globerman, a cattle worker.

Tying together the threads that bind past and present, Esther and Zayde will discover a shocking truth about their lives.