Shlomi, a young Israeli soldier, flees back to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the military elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war.
Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.
IT ALL BEGINS AT SEA is a drama with a few comic relieves, that tells 3 stories of the same 3 characters. In the first story, a 6 years old, goes to the beach with his parents. In the second story he is already 12 and out with his classmates on a fieldtrip, and in the last story he is 14 and moves with his family to a new apartment. In each story, a dramatic incident makes a change in the plot. .
Henry, an equipment manager in a film school, makes up his mind to make a movie, now or never. For the starring role he selects his own 13-year-old boy, Ami. Ami is a talented mimic, who excels especially in imitating animals and machine sounds. Making the movie becomes a meaningful process in the father-son relationship. Eitan Green: "I wanted to make a film about the process of making a film... to write about the process of coming back to one's own family... about the fact that it is a painful process for people at a certain age to realize that they will never again be what they used to be, even when it involves a certain amount of success
Giora (Assi Dayan) runs a bar and dreams of opening a restaurant. He has made a mess of his life — his marriage is in trouble, since he is pathologically cheating on his wife; his parents (Yosef Millo and Orna Porat) have separated; and his father arrives for an extended visit from Nahariya. Giora spends time with his army buddies, recalling their experiences during the War in Lebanon. His father is undergoing a major life crisis and finds both the loneliness of the city and his son's lifestyle unappealing. As a non-Jew in a Jewish society, he feels estranged, an outsider who has never been able to adapt, and contemplates suicide. Eventually, Giora's parents decide to attempt a reconciliation, until tragedy strikes.
The story of a woman trying to free her husband from a Russian prison camp. She lives in Israel, organizes strikes, and gains public and press support. But her public life begins to clash with her private life as she falls in love with a Hebrew teacher. This causes tensions in her family and the Israeli Russian community. Her love for the teacher, desire to end her heroic public obligations, and live her own life compose her tragedy.