Based on a novel by A.B. Yehoshua and directed by Menahem Golan, this Israeli romantic drama follows Dr. Ben Rubin, a young internist vying for a surgical position, who is selected to accompany his hospital administrator, Abraham Lazar, and Lazar's lawyer wife, Dori, on an urgent trip to India. The couple is racing to a remote Buddhist monastery to rescue their adult daughter who has fallen severely ill. Amid the vibrant cultural backdrop of India, the high-stakes journey takes a complicated turn when an intense, forbidden erotic passion ignites between the young doctor and the fifty-year-old mother, completely upending Ben's tightly ordered life and threatening to collapse the family's fragile emotional dynamics.