We see camcorder footage of an arrested girl, Yafa Jarrar, frankly recounting her killing of the Israeli minister of space and tourism, weeks before a scheduled moon landing from Spacecraft Hope. She is then taken, blindfolded and handcuffed, to Nurit Bloch, a university researcher looking into clairvoyance - 'we developed an algorithm that can predict the future'. Nurit claims this algorithm predicts acts of terrorism/resistance, but the minister's killing was not flagged, so either the girl's confession was false or the algorithm is flawed.
This may conjure up Minority Report, but the film does not have the slightest whiff of Sci-Fi. It is anchored purely in the characters, mainly Nurit, but that diesnt stopnit trying to cram in all sorts of elements. The story is about a woman whose life is over crowded - she has lots of decisions to make, and wants to do the right things.
Towards the end she's juggling Yafa - her current case, her surrogate volunteer and her mother all at once, a microcosm of her life. The film suffers as she does, I found it a bit too much all in one for me. It failed to engage consistently throughout the lean 80 minutes runtime, perhaps because there was too much being juggled.
3 out of 5
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