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An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer yet he barely earns a living. His new assignment to deport African migrant workers teaches him that foreigners aren’t the only ones with no future in his country. Other plotlines intertwine with Meir’s story: an Israeli-Filipino boy fighting for recognition; a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country; and a veteran migrant worker who’s forced to decide whether to leave or to hide until trouble passes.

27岁的Rachel一个人照顾着24岁的智障妹妹Gabby。Rachel工作的时候不得不把Gabby独自留在家中，被社工发现后，Rachel不得不奖Gabby送往日托中心，然而这大大改变了Rachel的生活，因为这是她第一次与别人共同分享对亲爱妹妹的教养，妹妹的缺席令她的日常生活产生大片的空白与崩溃。另一方面，Zohar成为撕扯她与妹妹之间纽带的另一道伤痕，Rachel无法与除了她和妹妹的其他人发展出正常的亲密关系，不得不迫使他们陷入一个扭曲的三人关系，爱的界限也饱受蹂躏……