After a twelve-year separation from her son and from the city of her dreams, Liza travels to St. Petersburg to visit them both. The purpose of her trip is to convince Leonid to return with her to Israel, but an insurmountable barrier stands in her way, in Israel Leonid is waiting for a prison.

The last thing that somehow preserves the appearance of the unity of the director's family is the apartment on the ground floor in Jerusalem. A lot has been experienced here, here recent St. Petersburg residents fought together with the ordeals of emigration, a grandson grew up here. But the family broke up, each of its members found their new way in their new homeland. And now it is not clear what to do with the old apartment, it is so difficult to refuse it, too much is connected with it. And its residents still have too much in common with each other.