Roundtrip

Synopsis

My grandfather was a war hero, and my grandmother a pioneer. Together, they founded my country: Israel. I grew up in their shadow, with the feeling that I owed everything to my grandparents. Yet, at the same age when they had defended the Zionist ideology with their arms and minds, I chose to avoid my obligatory military service and ended up in exile in France. My two sisters would later also choose to leave.
Today, I’m trying to understand, together with the three generations of my family, what happened to my country.