Prisoners of War

The hostage negotiation for the release of the Israeli soldiers has ended. Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach and Amiel Ben-Horin are coming home. The first two are alive, while Amiel was killed in captivity. The soldiers return and meet their families. Nimrode meets Talia, who’s been waiting all these years and leading the campaign for his release. He meets his 19-year-old daughter Dana and his son whom he’s never met, 17-year-old Hatzav. Uri meets his fiancée Nurit, and discovers she married his brother several years after he became a POW, an act that broke his family apart. Yael Ben-Horin imagines her brother Amiel, what he’d look like and how he’d act if he had returned alive.

Nimrode and Uri are taken to an interrogation facility for former POWs in Zikron Ya’akov, where they meet Haim, a military psychologist who’s supposed to figure out exactly what they went through in captivity. Talia, in an emotional upheaval from her husband’s return, struggles to deal with the fact that he’s suddenly back home. Nurit is torn between Yaki and Uri, whose return has awakened feelings she thought were long gone. Yael Ben-Horin arrives at the Abu-Kabir Morgue and demands to see her brother’s body. Ilan is the only one who manages to calm her down and get her to give up on the idea.

Haim continues to interrogate Nimrode and Uri in the facility. They do not know that an intelligence officer is decoding their secret language. Talia tries to visit Nimrode, but Haim does not allow her to see him, and she goes back home empty handed. Nurit prepares herself for Uri’s return. She makes dinner and cuts her hair, much to Yaki’s displeasure. Yael and Ilan grow close, and they go to the beach together. Yael still sees her brother Amiel in her mind's eye. Talia makes a spectacular dinner and waits, along with her children, for Nimrode’s return. Nimrode and Uri are released from the interrogation facility, but do not make things easy for the women waiting for them back home.

Uri is depressed. He refuses to get out of bed. Nurit tries to talk to him, but he won’t answer her phone calls. Yoske gives him a stack of letters his mother wrote to him throughout the years. Uri reads the letters at the cemetery, where he meets a lovely young woman, Iris, who invites him out for coffee. Nimrode is left alone in the house, now that his family is back to their daily routine. Haim visits him at home and tries to get him to talk in detail about his time in captivity. Afterward, he toys with journalists, and suffers a panic attack.

Amiel Ben-Horin’s funeral. Everybody’s there, yet Yael feels lonely. She sees her brother everywhere. She tries to convince him to leave her alone. Everybody meets up back at Yael’s house for the Shiva, the week of mourning. Nurit tries to find out who Iris is, while Ilan tries to find out why Yael is ignoring him. Uri and his brother Yaki talk for the first time since Uri’s return, and Yoske and Hatzav find something in common while Nurit and Talia hash out their complicated relationship in the kitchen. Nimrode visits a bereaved father who was opposed to the POW exchange. Yael demands that Ami prove to her that he exists.

Gadi Sukenik –a well-known television reporter –interviews Talia and Nimrode for a special morning broadcast, where Talia hears for the first time that Nimrode is going to start working for an advertising agency. They fight. Talia takes Dana to see Dr. Ostrovsky, a psychologist. Dana puts his professionalism to the test. Talia meets her friend Shiri and confesses that she finds Nimrode’s presence oppressive. Uri starts working at his father’s general store, where he meets his nephew Asaf for the first time, who invites him to his Bar-Mitzvah. Uri turns the invitation down. In the afternoon, Iris comes over to visit him and they have a picnic together. Iris gives him a gift, a journal where he can unload anything that’s troubling him. Nimrode starts working and discovers that the life of a professional is not what he had been hoping for. Talia and Nimrode make up and have a romantic dinner together. That night, Uri opens the journal and starts filling its pages with his memories.