Top Cast
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Shmuel Shiloh
Mendel
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Gershon Zuta
Jose
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Miri Bocker
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Yishay Meir
Overview
The warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers.
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