Thomas (Juliano Mer) and his sister Mariana (Semadar Kilchinsky) have arrived together in Tel Aviv and set up housekeeping in the sleazy side of the city. Thomas makes his money as a "kept man" for two different women who are nightclub entertainers. At the same time, he attracts the attentions of an amorous transvestite. His unnatural love for his sister goes unexpressed, but his jealousy cannot be controlled. If his sister wants to lead any sort of a normal life, it will be up to her to break her dependence on her brother and move on. The films of Hungarian born Amos Guttman, who died of AIDS in 1993 at the age of thirty-eight, were among the first to depict gay life in Israel, but they did so from such a lachrymose perspective that they often garnered more criticism than praise in many Israeli gay and lesbian circles. In his films the protagonists are hopelessly caught in vicious circles of sexual and emotional exploitation. One could approach Guttman’s thinking in a variety of ways. On the one had, he was the product of a time when homosexuality was repressed and marginalized, so his cinematic response might be seen as entirely logical. To purge Israeli society of its internalized homophobia required an unapologetic look at the potential “monsters” that it had created. Similarly, one finds in Guttman a vision of sexuality that was concerned, not with normalizing gayness within existing social structures, but rather with shattering those structures and substituting alternatives in their place.

一般而言，特拉維夫是世上所有以色列人的娛樂勝地，耶路撒冷才是信仰者前往祈禱的地方。在這部悲劇裡，在特拉維夫，主角們在此夜夜笙歌，所有故事圍繞著一間由兩位感情複雜的女人所經營的酒吧。達莉亞（Gila Almagor ） ，一位生病的製片情婦。Leora （ Irit Frank） ，她的警察男友Benny（Shuli Rand）四處拈花惹草。酒吧成員目前有兩位女老闆、一群酩酊大醉的士兵， Leora的男友法蘭克，Rika（一個精神脆弱的女人，“根據醫生指示”，絕對不能落單） ，一位歌手，一些毒販，和幾位阿拉伯廚子。一開始，Benny英雄般從士兵手裡救出Rika（ Avital Dicker），然而之後卻帶著她墮落，悲劇於是釀成。故事越演越烈，兩人終將自食惡果…