-[suspenseful music playing] -I'm not used to you calling.
Sunny set me up for everything. The thefts, the drugs, everything, all of it.
-You weren't lying. -No.
I'm sorry I'm such a shit, Mum.
If you weren't such a shit, I wouldn't love you so much.
I love you, Mum.
[Zorro] You'll leave here, become a stand-up comedian,
become a millionaire, take the world by storm.
[teacher] Perhaps you could tell your friends that you're building…
that you're gonna be a comedian.
The meter's running, yeah?
[adult Dean] You're still not in touch with Zorro?
-[father] No. -You never spoke to him in 20 years?
-No. -You're a stubborn lot, huh?
I've brought you some tickets to my show.
It's meant to be funny.
[lawyer] For over three years, my client has been cooperating with the police
in compiling a case against the criminal Dean Shaiman.
[young Dean] "He's a violent thug. Rude towards his own family."
"Deserves to die in prison."
Motherfucker!
Your friend's dead. All right?
[ringing tone]
[applause and whistling]
[bleep]
[adult Dean] Hey, it's Daniel Chen.
Um… Dean Shaiman.
Those tickets I left you…
So the show's today.
Be really happy if you came.
And if you've heard from Zorro,
ask him to come too.
[applause]
[feedback squeals]
[door creaks]
[muffled chatter]
[indistinct]
[raucous electronic music playing]
[music stops]
[Dana laughs]
I never said such a thing.
-[chuckles] -[door opens]
[woman] That's enough. This is ridiculous.
Get up and put your clothes in the wash.
-Okay. -Now.
[Dana sighs]
Is he a soldier?
-He's year 11. -No, he isn't.
He's a soldier. It's an official government stamp.
-He's not a soldier, I… -Then what's this?
-How am I supposed to know? -I won't have you go out with a soldier.
Oh really? What are you gonna do about it, huh?
What am I gonna do? I'll beat the hell out of you and sell your body.
"What am I gonna do?" You little brat.
All of this flirting on the phone ends this week, do you understand me?
Either you two meet this week and you make sure that he isn't some soldier
who just wants to screw you on his weekend leave,
or you put an end to it, do you understand me?
INSPECTED
-[Dana] Hello? -I'm not a soldier, I swear.
I've never been anyone's soldier.
-It's one of my rules. -I don't get it.
-Never mind. -We need to meet.
I can't keep putting her off like that.
-Why not? -No reason. You're right.
You already know what I look like. How bad could it be?
[chuckles] You're mad.
So yeah. I'll check my training schedule, and we'll meet?
Okay.
Give us it.
I'm in favour, man.
Forget it.
I'll sit next to her, and she'll smell the fear.
[Zorro chuckles] She won't smell a thing.
You have one mission.
Get out, get laid, buy me some popcorn and then come back. That's it.
-What's wrong with you? Me, get laid? -Yeah, but the girl's waiting.
[PA chimes]
[muffled announcement]
[poignant music playing]
Okay, two things.
How do I isolate Dean, and how do I get hold of a knife?
Don't need him on his own. We'll come, and we'll all support you.
I'd rather do it alone.
Too bad. I'm so bored.
-Think I'm Samantha Fox? -No.
Just want a little action.
Are you crazy?
Stop acting like a gangster. You're only a kid.
So a knife, huh?
-Real knife, or one like Lusha's sweater? -A knife.
There's only one real knife on the block.
[Zorro] Go on, ask her.
[Chelli] Good morning.
Warden. I'm glad you're here 'cause there's something I wanna ask you.
Go on.
Warden, I need a few days' leave. Please.
Have you told her?
-He's retarded. What can I do? -[Tully] Hmm? What are you talking about?
Uh… Dean Shaiman has been on the telephone
and chatting with a friend, and I guess she wants to meet him.
-He hasn't told her he's in jail. -Is she pretty?
-Yeah, she is. -[Tully] So why not tell her?
What can I say? Uh, "I'm a complete creep"?
[laughs]
Ah, you're better off going for the ugly ones, I'm telling you.
-[Chelli] You should listen. -Less likely to break your heart.
-But even they're a little too pretty. -You're right, Tully.
Come on, Chelli, what do you say? One day to sort things out?
I'm still traumatised from the last time you took some leave.
But I've changed. I'm rehabilitated.
-I'm all right now. -I can't, Dean.
What if I promise to behave over the next few months?
So maybe in a few months' time, if you're quiet.
So what about this? I get one day,
and then I tell her the whole truth.
-[lock buzzes] -[door slams]
[Dean] I know you wanna say yes.
I'll think about it.
-Think positive. -Yes, positive, of course.
As in next week?
If I give you leave, will you start going to class?
-And be less of an idiot? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-For sure? -[Dean] Yeah, for sure, for sure.
-All right. -You queen! So, next week.
-[Chelli] Next week. -Wait, why next week?
Why not tomorrow? Let him out tomorrow.
What do you mean? Is it…
Jail has messed up his internal clock.
-Next week's fine. -Fine.
-Thanks, Warden. You're the man. -[Chelli] You're welcome.
Thanks a lot!
What's wrong with you?
Sunny's a problem, yeah?
I thought if you went away for a while, he'd forget about you.
Forget about Sunny. He's fucking with your brain.
For us, he's just like a little Boy Scout, you know?
It's all good, yeah?
-[Dean] Tel Aviv? -[Dana] Obviously.
Why is that obvious?
-The rest of Israel's shit. -Shit? Really?
Uh… How about King of Israel Square?
-No. -Beach?
-No. -Stop it. I don't know where else to meet.
-What do you mean? You live there, no? -I don't know.
-I sit at home and read books. -[Dana laughs]
So then… So let's just decide
where we're going next week.
Okay.
-Kinda weird, right? -Yeah, sure is.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mansuri] Go on.
Hello, Sunny Bracha.
-Hey… -[Mansuri] What are you doing?
Let go of him. Let go of him. Let go of him. Get off him.
-[all talking] -[Sunny] Shut up! Shut your mouths.
Here, here. Quiet. Shut up.
-Shut up! -Listen, all of you, fuck off.
I've got a knife on my neck. Fuck off!
Lay off Dean, you got me?
All right, but why the knife? Just talk. Say what you want.
He's not the same person you knew.
Lay off him. He wants out of here.
He's not like us.
When your prince goes home, what'll you do without his money?
-Your canteen… -I don't owe him because of money.
Or any of this shit.
That's fine.
Let's just talk normally. You don't need the knife. Here.
[PA chimes]
[muffled announcement]
Before that fucker stabbed me, we were brothers.
I swear, I loved him like a brother.
Yeah. Could listen to that blow-job joke a hundred times over. Know it?
Yeah…
And about his mum's friends?
Yeah.
"Tamarchuk! Get a grip on that boy, Tamarchuk."
How about the fat ladies?
-[Zorro] That too. -Yeah?
And the gun and the donkey?
Old stuff. He's more advanced now. He's a pro.
Yeah, I heard he performs here.
Sometimes, you know.
He's not too shy? He's shy, Dean.
He's got good.
Keren made him a pro.
-Keren? -The drama teacher.
-Does she teach him? -Private lesson every day.
Where's that?
In the drama room.
Just him and her?
[suspenseful music playing]
So you'll back off, yeah?
Yeah, man, I…
I come in peace.
Careful.
[music intensifying]
When's yard time?
[Mansuri] Four.
How many guards watch that drama room?
Three, but one of them is Tully.
-He's a pushover? -Yeah.
[PA chimes]
[muffled announcement]
Open your mouth. Open up.
That's three. Here.
I've got Sunny off your back.
What do you mean?
I said I'm watching him and that he should lay off you.
You went to him? Why didn't you tell me?
It's no big deal. He's not looking for trouble. It's just noise.
I don't need you flexing for me.
I'm not flexing.
I just want you out of my life.
That's cool, man.
I'm serious.
All I want is for Chelli to come up to me during headcount and say,
"They've just let that idiot go."
And then I won't have to ever see your ugly face again.
Fuck you!
Don't think I should ever leave this place.
That's shit.
Just saying. I was such a loser outside.
Everyone thought I was a binman.
Now I'm good at something.
Really? What do you think you're good at?
Prison.
You know what? I'd rather not take that leave.
-Relax. What's up? -I'm staying here.
Oh!
[Dana] I bought new shoes.
-Oh. -I didn't know if you were tall or not.
You only sent me a photo of your face.
So I got some nice shoes, with no heels.
Listen.
Looks like I have a game next weekend.
Hello, Dana?
I heard you.
I'm sorry. I thought we didn't have one this week.
So you… changed your mind?
No, no, no. No, actually, I haven't changed.
That's great. Let's meet, then.
I'm saying that I'm not…
Are you a soldier? Is that it?
-No. -Then what?
I'm a binman.
-Not funny. -I'm not kidding.
I get up at 3:30 every morning to hug a truck.
Then by 5:00 pm, I'm dozing off to The Bold and the Beautiful.
-All right, Dean… -Just kidding. I'm kidding.
Yeah, but not… not totally.
What do you mean?
[sombre music playing]
I'm in prison.
Okay, I get it. Yeah, just forget it, all of it.
-No, I swear, I'm in prison. -So I'm not gonna meet you.
I've had enough. I don't understand.
Wait. Don't get all wound up with me. Hold on a second.
-Let's postpone for… -No, I don't…
[guard on PA] Everyone to the yard. Everyone to the yard.
Headcount in the cells in 40 minutes.
What was that?
Announcement in jail.
-[hangs up] -[gasps]
[dialling tone]
[ringing tone]
[phone ringing]
[gasping]
[tense music playing]
[sighs]
[music fades]
[keys jingling]
[radio chatter]
-Do you believe in God? -[chuckles]
No small talk with you, huh?
I'm tired. What can I tell you?
-[clears throat] -Tired of what?
No idea. People gossiping.
But you must understand, no?
What makes you think that?
You wouldn't work here if you were content with daily life.
Maybe it's because nobody else was willing to hire me.
-Yeah, but I know that's not true. -Right.
-How do you know? -I looked into it.
Hmm.
[radio chatter]
That Sunny Bracha is pretty scary.
[Tully sighs] He's just a kid.
-Bye, Tully. -Bye.
I'll be at my post if you need anything.
[Keren] Hey.
-How's it going? -I think I'll skip today's lesson.
Why? What's wrong?
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Nothing. Now just get off my case.
What's this? Why are you talking like that? What's it achieve?
Nothing. Who cares? Things aren't always good.
Will you please just tell me what happened?
[scoffs] You and your bullshit advice.
She hung up on me. Another slut.
I'm never telling anyone the truth again. Ever.
Right, I see.
That's shit.
Yeah, it is shit.
Listen, Dean, honey.
You just got freaked out.
About the leave, about getting out, about everything. It'll be all right.
Get off my back, you bitch.
[sombre music playing]
So you're gonna ruin everything for yourself?
That's right. Exactly.
All right.
Goodbye.
That's great.
What's happened. Something wrong?
[PA chimes]
[muffled announcement]
[suspenseful music playing]
Have you seen Dean?
Hey, Sweater, have you seen Dean?
-No, what happened? -What about Sunny?
[Lusha] No.
What's wrong? Zorro!
-[Sunny grunting] -Get off me!
[yells]
[Zorro] Fucker!
-[Sunny grunts] -[Zorro yelps]
Tully! Ambulance!
Zorro, are you okay?
Zorro, Zorro…
-[moans] -Zorro, just say something.
It's all right. [groans]
-It's all right. -[Tully] What?
-I'm here. Get help. Get an ambulance. -What happened? Zorro? Zorro!
-[Dean] I'm here, Tully, it's fine. -[Tully] Watch him!
-Yosef! I need a doctor in the drama room. -It's going to be okay.
I love you. I'll never leave you.
Stop bleeding or you're gonna make me faint…
[Tully] Move it. Move, move.
Zorro. Zorro. There's an ambulance on its way, Zorro.
-Are you with me? -Tully, get a move on.
[Tully] Don't worry, the ambulance is two minutes away.
-Just two minutes. It's all good. -[groaning]
[Chelli] Are you sure you don't want a few days leave?
I don't know, Warden.
I gather the girl is no longer in the picture.
Because?
'Cause you all gave me such stupid advice.
"Tell the truth" my arse.
Sorry.
Maybe you should take the leave anyway?
Take a little breather. Could go and see your mum.
Have some ice cream.
I'll tell you what, Dean.
When you're ready to leave this place enough, your life will improve.
Now do me a favour.
I want you to go to your egghead lawyer
and get him to assist you in appealing to a judge
to do what they can to grant you an early release.
Will you do that?
And while you're in a conciliatory mood, apologise to Keren.
["Murmuration" by Spearfisher playing]
[door opens]
[water flowing]
-Hey! -[chuckles]
Can I call the lawyer, then, Dean?
Yeah?
At least you got one good thing from your dad.
[both laugh]
[adult Dean] He lives in Bat Yam, on Oskar Schindler Street.
I went to see him in Bat Yam, uh… I went to his house.
I went at three in the morning, on impulse,
with two friends on a rainy night.
I knocked on his door.
I hadn't seen my father in my entire life. Never before.
And so then he opened the door,
and on the way up there, I'd made up an excuse.
I said, "Let's ask him, 'Who threw eggs at our car?'"
-"That's a good idea." -[laughter]
I just wanted to see him. I just wanted to see him, you know?
And then… I'd been angry with him my whole life.
I had so much rage against him.
He stood there, and he looked straight at me, you know?
And I'll never forget.
He opened the door, and he looked at me. He looked at me, I looked at him.
And I realised I was gonna be bald. I mean, he looks just like me.
He looks just like me, but bald. What is this shit?
And my friend says, "Wow, you're gonna be bald."
"He looks just like you." I was worried he would recognise me.
"What do you want? There's nothing here."
He nearly beat us up, and I was so proud. "That's my dad!"
"I have an assertive dad."
So then we just left, and on the next day, I came back.
But he wasn't at home. He'd gone abroad.
And then I knocked on the door. The whole building came out.
Suddenly, two female soldiers show up.
[nasally] "What do you want from Yacob?"
"What do you want? What… what do you need?"
I said, "He's my dad."
And then she goes, "No, he's not!"
I'm like, "Is that my sister? What the hell's going on?"
"Why is she already so annoying?"
"No, he's not!"
First, what do you know? And then her friend says, "Yes, he is."
They're the two most annoying girls I've ever seen. [chuckles]
"Can't you see the resemblance? Picture him bald."
-"You're a bitch!" -[laughter]
So they let me into his house, and it turns out he'd gone abroad.
I walk into his house. I'm all excited. She's excited. "I have a brother!"
And I already hate her so much. "I have a brother!"
And I'm sitting there shaking. Listen, she was the same age as me.
It's like my dad never gave it a rest, right?
[laughs] It's like with that fucker, "Give him a bed and we'll start a family."
[laughter]
I sat down. I wandered around the house, and then I sat down on some armchair.
The girl goes… [gasps] "No! Yacob! That chair's Yacob's!"
-So I say, "Who the hell is this guy?" -[laughter]
I say, "Okay. Interesting."
And so, then, his wife, she says,
"Yacob is away, and I can promise you,
when he comes home, he'll call you on the telephone".
I'm like, "Why would he listen?"
"He'll push you out the window. You don't know the guy."
He called me on the telephone. "Hello?" "Hello, it's Yacob," and all that shit.
We arranged to meet at some mall.
I couldn't wait and just went straight round to his house.
I went that same day. Knocked on his door.
He opens the door, all angry, and he says, "Why you here?"
"We agreed on next week. I don't like unannounced visitors."
"Well, I don't like it when people leave."
What a motherfucker!
I said that to myself.
[laughing]
[poignant music playing]
[sighs] So he was very…
He was angry with me, and he said,
"Come on, then. I'll take you home, all right?"
He drove me home, and it was the first time I ever drove with my dad in a car.
And I didn't know what it was like at all to even have a dad,
and here I am with him in the car.
There was this song on the radio. "Father…" You know, it's like…
[laughter]
And he just sat there. And… I don't know. I was flooded with emotions.
I thought I would have a lot to say, you know?
I had nothing to say,
"I'll get out here."
And so then, I left.
And so eventually, after a few days,
we did meet at that mall like we said we would.
So that's when he says to me, "Look! Here's the caff."
And I think, "Ooh, he's assertive." "I've got a discount here."
And so he drank some hot chocolate.
He takes out a book about Napoleon.
He puts it on the table, a biography of Napoleon.
And I swear, he says to me,
"Napoleon conquered the world by the age of 30."
"What are you gonna do with your life?"
I swear to God, those were his words.
[chuckles]
And I remember feeling goosebumps all over me, and then I said,
"Thank God he didn't raise me".
What would have become of me?
I suddenly realised that everything was fine. I got exactly the life I needed.
It's all okay, yeah?
Sometimes you think you know what you want,
but don't know what you really need.
I thought I should have lived with my father,
and what I really needed was a kick up the arse to wake me up, you know what I mean?
And you think that… Suddenly, you realise
that yesterday's kick turns into tomorrow's stand-up piece.
Suddenly it made sense. 'Cause if I'd grown up with him,
I would have definitely been like… [nasally] "No, he's not!"
["Murmuration" resumes]
-[boy 1] Yeah. I hear he's moving schools. -[boy 2] Really?
-[boy 1] It's quite a nice school, but… -[boy 2] Where is it?
-[Keren] You did well. -[boy 2] Oh, right.
Boring kids here, no?
White.
You're white as well.
Not in my soul.
I just came to say I'm sorry.
-Really? -Yeah.
Surprise.
[chuckles] Think I came to knife you, yeah?
-Could have been possible. -No way.
Well? Why are you here?
Oh, I just thought that…
maybe we could keep up our rehearsals…
We could.
What are you doing tonight?
Don't know.
[faint audience laughter]
["Murmuration" continues]
[music fades]
And?
Are we staying all night?
We'll get going soon.
Okay.
[gentle, warm music playing]
[Tamara] No? Don't you want it?
-[Dekel] Can I have it? -[Dean] No.
[Tamara tuts] Just give it to him. I'll buy you a new one.
-[Dekel] Thanks, Mum. -Here you are, sweetie.
-Take it. I'll buy you a better one. -[Dean] Toys? Want some toys?
-[Tamara] Take it. What do you want? -[Dean] Take them.
[Tamara] Give him everything. I'll replace it.
-[Dean] Want this? -[Tamara] Just give him everything.
-[tuts] -[phone rings]
-Just throw this away. -Answer that.
-[Dean] I'm not going. -Just answer it.
-[Dean] I've gotta deal with the clothes. -[Tamara] Oh, you're a pain.
[ringing continues]
Hello?
Hey, it's Zorro.
Can I…
have Dean?
Uh… hold on. I'll see if he's here, okay?
[Dekel] Too big.
[Dean] They're big 'cause they've got big ambitions.
Dean. Zorro.
Sweetie, there's no halfway. It's either him or you.
-[birdsong] -[dog barking]
[children playing]
He's gone out.
[sighs]
He's not coming back.
She got him an early release?
So it seems.
Good on you, Rabbit.
["Tears of Goodbye" by Shoogy playing]
♪ Someone took your love away ♪
♪ And the pain is here to stay ♪
♪ Come back home, that's all we pray ♪
♪ We won't forget ♪
♪ Look for their silhouettes ♪
♪ Everyone has lost a friend ♪
♪ Some are alive, and some are dead ♪
♪ Countless stories without an end… ♪
First, I love Ethiopians best because Ethiopians are people that are like…
I bond with people who appreciate the simple things.
"Come and see this chair, Avisha! Let's take it!
"Oh, what a chair!"
And Ethiopian girls in my school were, I mean, Ethiopian.
I think they're lovely. Well, most of them.
Yeah, but their… their value's gone right down.
when you have Ethiopians all over.
In the '90s, anything you said to an Ethiopian girl would impress her.
Walk up to the most beautiful girl you've seen in your life
and say, "Come over. I've got outgoing calls."
"I don't believe you, liar!"
"What a liar! You're all talk. What a phoney. You liar!"
"You're a complete phoney"
And she says… to her friends in Amharic,
she says, "A lay lay! Doon too abeela! Brrrrrrr!"
They have put-downs you don't see coming. "What do you want from her, pink nipples?"
"Me?" "Yes you, pink nipples, you know exactly who I'm talking about!"
[cooing]
Mummy?
Hi.
[chuckles]
Hi.
[Dean chuckles] Hi.
Hello.
-I'm Ruth. -[Dean] Pleasure to meet you.
-[Zorro] This is Dean. -Hey.
[baby crying]
-[laughing] Daniel. It's a pleasure. -[Ruth] Good to meet you.
-Sh, sh. -Did you enjoy yourselves? Did you laugh?
-[Zorro] Yeah, sure. -[Ruth] I'll take him for a stroll.
-Pleased to meet you, Daniel Chen. -It's all right. All right.
What a cutie.
[baby cooing]
-[sighs] -Hey.
How did that… When did that happen?
You won't believe it. [chuckles]
My Ruth's a wild one.
Served two years in prison for fraud.
She answered my Cupid call. We spoke for a year on the phone…
No way!
The first time we met was at our wedding.
[chortles] What a pro, eh?
True story, I swear.
Thanks for coming.
For sure, man.
I've been waiting my whole life.
[chuckles softly]
Your mum, how's she doing? She okay, Dean?
Daniel.
Dean. Dean!
You wanker.
Time flies, huh?
And, uh…
Do you think we should…
Be great.
We'll try and meet.
Bye, Rabbit.
[Dean] Zorro.
-Sorry about what happened. -Ah, sh.
Was years ago now.
["Back Home" by Alon Lotringer playing]
[sighs]
♪ We're strollin' ♪
♪ Through the maze ♪
♪ We're strollin' ♪
♪ Through the haze ♪
♪ And when our hearts are bare ♪
♪ We'll find our way back home ♪
♪ On a sunny day ♪
♪ Things falling ♪
♪ Into place ♪
♪ We're crawling ♪
♪ To another space ♪
♪ With hearts so bare ♪
♪ We'll find our way back home ♪
♪ On a sunny day ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ We're strollin' ♪
♪ Through the maze ♪
♪ We're strollin' ♪
♪ Through the haze ♪
♪ And when our hearts are bare ♪
♪ We'll find our way back home ♪
♪ On a sunny day ♪