Restoration

70 year old Yaakov Fidelman hangs on with all his might to the antique restoration workshop which has been his life's work. He rejects his son Noah's idea to close the business. He believes that with the help of his new apprentice Anton, he'll find a way to save his workshop, his world and his solitary way of life. Will the old man understand that his only hope for redemption is to learn to let go, admit and accept his weaknesses and the dictate of time? “My choice to do this particular script came first and foremost from the choice of subject-matter: A father-son relationship, subject matter that, for me, is always a known and fertile territory, but more than that, the sense that the near abstract defining framework of the screenplay would allow me to build a world and ambiance just as important to the narrative. It is a script that allows a director to breathe and does not force him to chase the plot. With it, in spite of the seemingly understated narrative, there is a powerfully dramatic story in this screenplay, almost mythical or Shakespearian – of the triangle of a father, his biological son, and an adopted son”, says director Yossi Madmoni.