They truly believe that words can change something.' I thought, 'Well, if fascists fear words so much, then maybe it can also be used as a weapon,'" she said. "Not to escape reality with words, not as escapism — quite the contrary: as a way to face reality." What follows is a drama about guilt, denial and revenge — a mirror of Israeli society, which Gundar-Goshen sees as trapped in a fatal cycle of fear of the "Other." Suddenly a news report came on: A Palestinian worker had murdered his Israeli employer.