- The film is loosely based on the eassay The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, in which he states that the author as an individual is inconsequential to the understanding of a work. "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture....a text's unity lies not in its origin, but in it…
- Subtitled "3 Childhood Scenes and Death," the story plays out as a trio of episodes in the life of furniture salesman Yehuda (Yuval Segal)and wife Dina Goldstein (Dorit Lev-Ari) and their 6-year-old son, Udi (Jonathan Alster). In "Scene One: The Sea," Dina and Udi are rescuedfrom an undertow off the…