Alon Retter

Alon, the film’s director, revisits a traumatic Purim night in Jerusalem, when he returned to sex work in a park just to afford a Queen Esther costume. Through a fusion of cinematic reenactments, documentary fragments, and a renewed connection to Esther herself, Alon seeks to reclaim control over a painful memory — transforming trauma into meaning, and finding in Purim a path toward redemption and self-understanding.

After her whirlwind appearance on the reality show “The Next Star”, Johnita, a young transgender singer, falls back into her reality. There she lives with her Orthodox father, then goes to the Pride Parade. She dreams of finding love while the realities of discrimination and hatred are a constant in her life and raise questions of eternal conflict.