This remarkable film is the story of a man’s dedication to his dead son and wife, both lost during the Holocaust. He becomes so consumed, in fact, that he is blind to the love of his new family.

This film is also a story of unconditional love.

With his second wife, the man has a son, a boy who seems to understand his father. It is 1960s Tel Aviv, where the boy’s role model is Kirk Douglas playing Spartacus, a warrior with a tender heart for his own father.

Filled with love for and reminiscences of Israel in the early 1960s, this is a rewarding movie about continuity, family, belief and memory.