Or (My Treasure)

Or shoulders a lot: shes 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or my treasure, but Ruthie is a burden. Shes just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Ors emotions roil further when the mother of the youth shes in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Ors choices narrow.