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The Israeli writer-director
Eran Riklis's film is, one supposes, intended as a modern
reworking of the Old Testament story of Ahab, the King of
Israel, who covets the vineyard of his neighbour, Naboth the
Jezreelite. In this case, however, Ahab is Israel's defence
minister. He has moved into a new house adjoining a lemon
grove, a middle-aged Palestinian widow's only source of
income, and insists that the trees be cut down for security
reasons. She fights back, engaging in a hopeless battle,
though unlike Ahab's wife, Jezebel, the minister's wife
sympathises with the handsome widow.
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