A family of Holocaust survivors and their second generation children use white lies reflecting pain, humor, love and compassion to protect each other.
A young theater director, suffering a  psychological crisis followed by a broken love affair and the failure of his first play, returns to Israel after many years in Paris.

This ‘escape’ illusion disintegrates when he learns that his mother,  a Holocaust survivor, has terminal cancer. As a result of this devastating news, a web of ‘white lies’ unfolds and escalates within the family.

To reduce the Mother’s anxiety and fear, the son conceals his own misery and heroically maintains the pretence of normal life by hiding the mother’s condition from her. The mother, against the backdrop of her Holocaust experience, has the constant need to protect her children by not exposing them to the realities of the horrors she went through. She continues this pattern by refusing to acknowledge her son’s sense of personal failure.

The family doctor and personal friend, who had misdiagnosed the early stages of the Mother’s illness, is guilt-ridden and therefore cooperates with the son in concealing the facts from the mother.

The daughter returns from the US to visit her dying mother and shatters the conspiracy of ‘white lies’ within the family.

This ‘web of white lies’ continues to flourish within the drama even after the death of the mother.

Israel

Duration: 90 Minutes

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews