Sinopsis momentánea en inglés: In the Bukharim quarter, Jerusalem, during the 1920s, merchant Naftali Siman-Tov (Yossi Pollak) is a wealthy middle-aged widower, all of whose previous wives have died under mysterious circumstances. He fears getting married again due to believing that he is cursed. A local matchmaker, Arotchas (Salim Daw), with the help of some old ladies, pressures him to get married again nonetheless, and, eventually, he marries Flora (Rita Jahanforuz), a naïve 24-year-old virgin. However, in order not to bestow his alleged curse upon her, he avoids all physical touch. Flora gets pregnant as a result of sleeping with a local textile salesman, Hamedian (Jonathan Cherchi), and, Naftali, unable to bear the shame, becomes violent toward his young wife.