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Shooting in Sderot; Characters

הסוסיתא של הרצל - נער רץOhad Malka (17) films his mother, Yaffa, a 38 years old hairdresser whose husband David disappeared two years ago. Ohad and his mother live together and have a close relationship. During the filming, Ohad discovers that Yossi, a policeman from the local station where his father had also served, is dating his mother. Yaffa is certain that Ohad expects her to wait for his father, but at the same time, she dreams of a man who will stand at be her companion and thus allows Yossi to get close. Through his film, Ohad sets his mother free to pursue a new life, gets to know Yossi, and with his help, relinquishes his ties to his father who will never return.

הסוסיתא של הרצל - מצלמים נער רץTal Ben Harush (17) is a closet homosexual. He is the son of Etti and Hananya, and films his parents who have been married for over 25 years. His mother, Etti, was a famous belly dancer.  Hananya was a man she met through her show.  After she married him, he became a violent man responsible for ending her career and the death of their eldest daughter. At the beginning of the story, Hananya is hit by a Qassam missile at his workplace. Throughout the film, Etti conducts a one-way dialogue with a comatose man, lying helplessly in the hospital bed. Hananya, for the first time in his life, is forced to “listen” to what she has to say. Tal too settles his score with his comatose father, telling him about his sexual tendencies and introducing him to Ofer, his boyfriend. The plot thickens when hospital officials ask Etti to sign an organ donation form, forcing her to make a terrible choice.

הסוסיתא של הרצל - מצלמים מרחוק שלט שדרותLibi Hazanov (17) is the youngest daughter of a Caucasian family. She is a modern cynical and rebellious teenager, who refuses to give into pressure from her parents to become ultra religious like her eldest sister Caro in order not to serve in the army. She dedicates all her free time to her one great love, music. She plays rock music and refuses to sing in any language besides English to rebel against Israel, against the people who have forgotten her and her friends in the tiny “godforsaken” corner of the country. Her dream is to leave Sderot and and to make it big in the Tel Aviv music industry. She still can’t take that final step to leave however.  At the same time she films her sister, Caro, who is engaged to marry  a man named Herzl. The wedding is cancelled after Herzl loses all the money meant for the wedding in a casino. Now Libi’s parents refuse to let them get married, but Herzl refuses to give up hope that they will be together.