A Thousand and One Wives

The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middleaged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora a 24yearold virgin but not to infect her with a curse he avoids any physical contact with her The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant and Naftali who cant bear the shame turns his anger on his young wife