Forgiveness
2006
· ⭐ 4.8 · Votes: 4
On April 9 1948 a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.