斯坦尼（约翰·库萨克 饰）在一间超级市场工作，带着两名女儿海蒂与朵儿一起生活，妻子格雷斯是名士兵，此刻正征战沙场。斯坦尼的生活平淡，对女儿们十分关怀却要求严格。妻子不幸牺牲的消息传到了斯坦尼的耳中，他不敢把消息告诉日夜思念母亲的孩子们。于是他决定要满足孩子们最单纯的愿望，带她们到主题公园去玩。海蒂跟朵儿从叔叔的口中得知…

Maya Steinberg is a secular Israeli. Her father, however, had a late religious awakening. He will not appear in her film. Instead, the young director approaches his faith and her lack of understanding for it through a visit to the gravesite of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Galilee, where she spends a few weeks, observing …