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Workshoped with inmates from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

Ron is intelligent, charming and full of life, but every day, his movements are increasingly limited by cerebral palsy. This, while he watches his twin run and play soccer with their brother. The film follows this remarkable family's struggles as the parents do everything in their power to raise three children who are happy with their lot, despite the unfathomable gap between them. A daring trip to the US to undergo a complex surgery to halt the progress of the disease reveals different approaches to life as well as the incredible power to live with one's fate.

When 18 years old Eliran was three years old, he witnessed his father attempting to murder his mother by stabbing her 18 times with a knife. He has been struggling to integrate into society ever since, yet his attempts to do so seem to have little chance of succeeding. This film documents Eliran's coming-of-age in a special school where troubled adolescents are brought into contact with nature. In the course of a single year, he struggles to stay in school, falls in love for the first time, and tries to find love and comfort in his mother's home in a final attempt to integrate into society.