Shmama

A four-story building in the midst of a city. A bridge runs above it, busy with heavy traffic and passing trucks. Behind the leftmost window on the fourth floor is the residence of two brothers, a mother and a father. A family who perhaps have never had the right to exist.

Two young boys are sitting on the stairs and playing ball. Then they perform a sexual act with a girl from the building. A friend of the boys watches everything happening from upstairs, several floors above them.

Across from the municipal music hall in Bat-Yam, there is a large, run-down concrete building. It was built as part of the public housing project in the 50s, and most of the tenants have been living there since. The gap between the two buildings is so much larger than the actual distance.