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Runtime: 30 minutes
Reut, 16 years old, is fat, with gentle features, Her parents do not know how to deal with her weight gaining and raging outbursts, so they decide to send her for therapy in the children's ward for eating disorders.
In the hospital, Reut meets Lilach. Lilach is the complete opposite of her, a skinny and pale anorexic, as beautiful as an angel- more like half an angel. They are attracted to one another like a ying-yang, two halves of the same whole. If only Lilach could starve Reut's fat body, and Reut could feed Lilach's skinny body two complementary diseases and two lost girls trapped in between.
The hospital's daily routine is difficult for rebellious Reut. She is forced to deal not only with her weight, but for the first time in her life with her parents, and blames them entirely for all her problems.
The need to be in a place where everyone is sick with external diseases, quasi-physical, and understanding that her disease is not just the outcome of her doing but a psychological disease.
Reut succeeds in 'floating' underneath the institutes radars. She does enough so she isn't bothered or suspected, but not enough to absorb the therapeutic tools which are available to her and she diminishes with Lilach. Although she loses some weight, she does not admit her real problem, and Lilach's life is in danger- she is smaller and is losing her chances. She crosses the red line, the point of no return, and her weak body betrays her and collapses. This is the point where Reut realizes that she must live, and in order to do so she must cooperate.
The film presents marginal characters, 'underdogs', rejected and unusual individuals, while focusing on Reut and the pathology around her situation. The film also presents the weighing routine and the humiliating ceremony of exposing ones most painful point, family meetings with psychologists, the elimination of ones privacy, and the somewhat sacred ritual of involvement with food which dictates the girls' lives there (whether it's the attempt to prevent it or the longing and need to eat more). The film also portrays her understanding that what she has is indeed an illness, and understanding that she is the only one who can help herself.
Screening: Friday, November 11, 2:00PM at 217 East 42nd Street Reserve Seats