The film unfolds a story never told before, of the thousand

Viennese Jews on the banks of the Danube, in the winter of

1941, awaiting to be sentenced to life or death by "Aliya B"

officials; the coordinators of the illegal immigration to Palestine.

Originally, Nachum Laufer, the director''s father, intended to tell

the story of how he fled from Europe with his mother. However,

during research work, he came across the story of another

woman, Ruth Kliger: “First Lady of the ''Mossad''”. His research

as to the history of Ruth Kliger takes us on a painful and complex

journey through the history of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine

- before WWII. It is also a story within a story, weaving the

fathers account of Ruth with the moral dilemma she faced -dramatically reconstructed by actors. The film switches back

and forth from documentary to feature film, from octogenarian

survivors to actors, and from facts to their representation on

screen, in an attempt to understand one heroine, against the

backdrop of a painful historical episode.