Synopsis
Yehezkel, 72, lives in a retirement home in Jerusalem with his wife Levana. Yehezkel is the resident inventor, always coming up with new and original ways of making everyone's life a little easier. When his best friend Max, who is suffering from a terminal illness, asks Yehezkel to help him end his life, he feels compelled to help his friend die in peace. Together with a retired veterinarian, who brings the tranquilizers, and a former police detective to clean up the evidence, he tries to figure out the best way to put Max to rest. The thing is no one in the group can bring themselves to actually kill Max, so Yehezkel invents a "Euthanasia Machine" which will allow Max to press the button himself, and fulfil his own wish to die with dignity.Levana, Yehezkel's wife, does everything she can to stop them, but Yehezkel goes behind her back, and together the group of friends help Max end his suffering. When Levana, who suffers from early stage Alzheimer’s, realises what they've done she calls them all murderers, and wants nothing to do with them.
Meanwhile word of the machine begins to leak out, and old people from all over Jerusalem come to the retirement home looking for a way to end the suffering of their loved ones. They beg Yehezkel and his friends to help them. The group resists at first, but finally they find themselves in the euthanasia “business", granting people their last wish to die in peace.
Yehezkel is so distracted by all this that he refuses to realise that Levana's condition is deteriorating, despite her increasingly erratic behaviour. But Levana realises she's one step away from not knowing her own granddaughter and as she begins to consider her own situation she starts to understand that she may have misjudged her husband and her friends.
