Ha’harug ha-17

In June 2002, a bus on its way to Tiberius from Tel Aviv was bombed. 17 people were killed, 16 were identified. No. 17 was not. He was buried a few weeks later’anonymously. The police stopped searching, believing that he must have been a foreign worker. This is where the filmmakers step in, documenting in real time over a period of six months the search for the identity of a man no-one claimed missing. The film takes the form of a detective investigation, but also pursues the stories of several people who were affected directly or indirectly by this bombing, creating a tragi-comic portrait of a society living under the shadow of death. When it seems that the investigation has reached a dead end a vague lead appears…