Out of the blue, Mouly (Alon Abutbul) decides to leave his farm to see
the world ... an effort stopped short at a bus station where a
philiosophical telephone card vendor, Zohar (Zohar Dinnar), steals his
bag. Mouly tries to track Zohar down, but the more he learns about him and
his weird aspiration to transform into Planet Blue (whatever that
is), the more it becomes clear to Mouly that he is not actually looking
for his bag but for Zohar himself, who could set him right on the track to
happiness. However, before he knows it, Mouly has become a window cleaner
(with his track being the way from one customer to the next), has started
a relationship with the girlfriend (Nirit Katzenstein) of his boss (Danny
'Pook' Offrie), has hooked up with two wannabe gangsters (Rafi Dinnar,
Ilhan Fatchi), and has stumbled across a wide variety of drugs, one
looking exactly like an onion. Finally, Mouly's quest takes him to the
Dead Sea, where all his problems seem to go up in smoke while he's
floating in the water. And he also meets Zohar again, at another bus
station, and realizes his quest (for Zohar, for his bag, for love, for
whatever) has actually transformed him ... Decidedly weird
stoner comedy that throws conventional reasnoning overboard early on but
follows its own absurd to surreal logic that soon enough makes sense. Only
the finale at the Dead Sea is a bit of a letdown as it seems like the
screenwriters have run out of ideas of how to properly end their story and
thus come up with a poorly cobbled-together happy ending - but that hardly
affects the entertainment the movie as a whole provides.
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