Co-written, co-directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz (brother and sister), the film also stars Ronit in the title role of this, the third film in a family saga that chronicles the arc of an unsuccessful marriage. It is a scathing look at the confessional control of marriage and divorce in Israel, where Orthodox rabbinical courts alone can issue a gett (divorce) and, if there are no overt grounds (abuse, physical/sexual defect, etc), only if the husband agrees. Gross incompatibility and misery are not grounds if the husband does not consent, and Elisha (Simon Abkarian) does not, despite the efforts of Viviane’s attorney Carmel (Menashe Noy). The trial drags on for years as the husband wages a fight through witnesses and testimony brought in by his representative (Sasson Gabai). It is a brutal process made more painful by the religious pretentions of the rabbis and litigants, with each having to perpetually defend their personal religious honor. A fascinating and excruciating look at religious patriarchy carried to its logical and terrible conclusion in a supposedly modern, seemingly secular state. I have personal friends who had to obtain a traditional divorce in order to remarry There is no secular divorce in Israel. Well worth seeing