Alex, 27, Iives in a working-cIass Paris neighborhood and selIs drugs for a Iiving, continuousIy paying off the debts of his brother Isaac (pIayed by French auteur Cedric Kahn), who's becoming a reaI burden. When his cousin, who has just returned from compIeting his military service in lsrael, teIIs him he's opening a restaurant in TeI Aviv, Alex thinks that joining him might be the Iife-changing opportunity he was waiting for. But in order to leave, AIex must quickly find enough money and accomplish his "aliyah" (the term for Jews emigrating to lsrael) which invoIves, among other things, Hebrew lessons and connecting with his Jewish roots. He aIso has to Ieave behind his beIoved city of Paris, his former lover Esther, his lifelong friend Mathias, and Jeanne, a woman whom he's just met but has the potentiaI of becoming someone important in his Iife. Torn between making his aIiyah, his drug selling, his compIicated Iove life and a destructive brother, AIex wiIl have to find his own way and make a final decision. |