FILL THE VOID

The story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dreamcome- true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. But on Purim, her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Esther, dies while giving birth to her first child. The pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. Everything changes when an offer is made to match Yochay – the late Esther’s husband – to a widow from Belgium. Yochay feels it’s too early, although he realizes that sooner or later he must seriously consider remarrying. When the girls’ mother finds out that Yochay may leave the country with her only grandchild, she proposes a match between Shira and the widower. Shira will then have to choose between her heart’s wish and her family duty.