Alila (2003)

Alila 2003 In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats where his ex wife Mali lives with her current lover Ilan Ezra and Malis young son Eyal hates the army and is AWOL, living among prostitutes and drug dealers Gabi, a beautiful young woman whos a friend of Malis, is carrying on an affair with Hezi, an older man insisting on secrecy Hezi rents an apartment at the building for their trysts Neighbors complain about the noise of their lovemaking and of the construction Lives revolve slowly one around another Everyones out for himself, says Ezra of Israeli society Suicide bombings and elections provide a backdrop