Little Jerusalem

Laura, an 18-year-old philosophy student, wants to get out from under the strict rules of her Orthodox Jewish family. Born and raised in Little Jerusalem, a Jewish district in Paris, she stubbornly rejects a handsome Jewish medical student from of a good family when her mother introduces her to him, for fear of ending up like her older sister Mathilde.

Mathilde, married with four children, is a devout Jewish wife who in the name of her faith and her social role, denies her sexuality and represses her feelings. Laura, who works nights as a cleaner, finds herself attracted to a Muslim Arab colleague, while Mathilde discovers her husband’s infidelity. His indiscretion hits her like a thunder bolt and leads her to seek, like her sister, a means of freeing herself.