Victoriosa

Abigail has had a brilliant career in the Israeli army as a military psychologist, making her way in a world dominated by men. In her stellar career, and with innovative methods, she has specialized in combat psychology, whose objective is to prepare soldiers to win on the battlefield, that is, psychologically train them to kill and to see their comrades. To die. She is now almost fifty years old, she is a single mother and works in the private sector, treating the traumas of the very soldiers that she had sent into combat. When a colleague, with whom she has always had an intimate and complex relationship of mutual respect, becomes head of the army, he calls on her once more to help prepare the troops for an impending war. At the same time, on the eve of the war, her eighteen-year-old son enlists to become a combatant. These two events will shake her deepest convictions and lead her to a shocking final revelation. With her usual poignant and concise tone, and from within the system, Yishai Sarid has once again created a story whose contradictions expose the most essential tensions in Israeli society.