After twenty-seven years, Amos Gitai recalls a tragic event which saw him protagonist and witness, at the age of twenty-three, of the war of Kippur. Weinraub and Rousso, two young Israelites, are enlisted in an airforce rescue team during the Arabian-Israeli conflict, which broke out on 6th October 1973, the Jewish festivity of Yom Kippur. Syria and Egypt launch a surprise attack against Israeli territories, occupying The Golan plateau and Sinai. While the two soldiers are trying to join their unit, they are involved in a gunfight: it is the chaos! Forced to run away, they take shelter in a military base and they are recruited in a medical rescue team on board of a helicopter that transfers the most seriously injured to military hospitals. The mission seems risky and desperate.
