L'Aube British-mandated Palestine, 1947. A young member of the Jewish resistance has been sentenced to death by the British authorities. In turn, a British officer has been kidnapped. If one dies at dawn, so will the other. A shoot-to-kill curfew has been announced. The town is deserted: there is fear of pogrom. Five young resistance fighters sit out the night together, a kind of vigil for their condemned friend. The three youngest are close friends, and the nearest thing to family in their lives. The other two are older, and acquaintances from the movement. To ease the all-night vigil, each is nominated to tell a story, about life in the resistance, about the past, about the future. The stories are by turn humorous, tragic, compassionate, cynical, optimistic. Only towards the end do we begin to suspect that these have been subtly directed towards the youngest of this group, eighteen year old Elisha, a relative newcomer. They briefly sleep. They are woken by the sound of distant gunfire.The stories resume, but half-heartedly. Reality succeeds fiction and parable. Elisha is shocked to hear there is a man in the basement, the very British officer, who will be killed at dawn. We discover that the two older men are not the friendly raconteurs of the previous act, but a campaign-hardened team, assassins and kidnappers, sent here to ensure that orders are fulfilled. Gad and Ilana must break the news to Elisha : he has been nominated to kill the British officer. Is this a duty? A privilege? A test? A betrayal? We see the strain on the relationship between the three young people. But dysfunctional as it may be, this is the only family and the only future they have together. Elisha stands at the top of a darkened stairwell, and looks down to a slit of light at the base of a door. He must decide on an action which is most repugnant to his nature and personal history : the intimate killing of a defenceless man. He takes the gun, and goes down the stairs, and confronts his victim... END.		Drama, 2009 80 Min., 35mm Original version: Hebrew, English Concept: Elie Wiesel Screenplay: William MacKinnon Director: Romed Wyder Photography: Ram Shweky Sound: William Edouard Franck Design: Roger Martin, Boaz Katznelson Cast: Joel Basman, Rami Heuberger, Liron Levo, Sarah Adler, Moris Cohen, Jason Isaacs Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion Co-production: Delirious Productions UK, Enigma Films, Lama Films Israel Producer: Tunje Berns, Samir & Philip Gates, Rick West, Clarens Grollman, Amir Harel