The 1970s, a cooperative kibbutz in the Western Galilee. Strange times. Men go off to fight and never return, technological devices begin to appear in every home, girls and boys dance in clubs to the sounds of rock and roll. Against the backdrop of the place and time, a deaf child grows up. In a direct voice and clear language, Gonen Nesher leaves us no choice but to be swept along with him on a journey of his memories of the kibbutz. We share in all the sights, smells and tastes, and are mainly led by the imagination, which also sharpens as compensation for the loss of hearing, and proves to be the strongest sense. In vulnerable and honest writing, the reader is invited to wonder about the power of imagination compared to memory, and about the possibility of confronting pain with compassion and acceptance. The book reveals the dark side of one of the esoteric and founding myths of Israeli society – the abuse and sense of alienation that the individual experiences from the kibbutz, a society that was considered a model and exemplar at the time.