Offspring

A 32yearold woman from an Israeli Sephardic community is childless but under constant pressure from her relatives demanding offsprings She and her grandmother accidentally find themselves at the circumcision of a little child and there someone tells her about a tradition quite strange to the outsiders if a woman who cannot get pregnant eats the foreskin of a baby life will take a turn for the better Israeli director Shirley SassonEzer shows intergenerational relationships that are full of love and are devoid of aggression and yet are still complicated by the insurmountable obstacles of differences in worldviews