Pretty dire film about a young orthodox Jew living in Zurich, full of cliches and stereotypes, and rather misognistic in its depiction of Jewish, non-Jewish and Israeli women. Motti is the last unmarried son of his parents, and his mother is desperate to get him married off, but he's not attracted to any of the dull ugly orthodox candidates that they find for him. Instead he ends up falling for a young woman in his economics class at the university (why is he studying there when he comes from such an orthodox background?) and they develop a relationship. There's a short interlude in a fantasized hedonistic Israel, where he is sent to find a bride but instead loses his virginity in a casual fuck with a beautiful, cool Israeli woman.
He rejects his community and his heritage, brings his "shiksa" (there's no engagement with just how horrible that word is) home to meet his parents, and then is thrown out by his mother. Oh and there's a dying orthodox older woman with clairvoyant tarot-reading powers...reallly, it's just rubbish. Time wasted, slightly mitigated by some nice shots of Zurich.
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