Yom Kippur

The theme of the play is love, in its different forms and meanings: maternal love, religious love, family love. Or the absence of it. The love that drives people apart, only to bring them back together. Or not. The action takes place on the eve and on the day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the most important Jewish holiday. Four grown sisters gather at the family home, summoned by the youngest, who tells them their mother has disappeared. They discover that what made them into such different, almost irreconcilable characters was that their mother had been a different mother to each of them. On Yom Kippur, the day of forgiveness, a holiday on which everything in Israel comes to a stop, the four sisters are forced to reconsider the past in order to understand themselves better, each on her own and all of them together, in the future. Their own lives take on a new meaning by the end of this Yom Kippur. Or perhaps, at last, they take on one at all. And, as after any Yom Kippur, a new beginning is possible.