A photo found by the filmmaker in her grandmother’s house after her death seems strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explain that the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an abortion that damaged her womb. This sets the director’s curiosity about her biological grandmother. The adoption file tells of Shoshana, 16, an Iraqi immigrant who got pregnant out of wedlock. Her sister reveals that the family abused her but she refused to give up the baby, who was eventually taken from her. Both suffered patriarchal oppression and remained silent. Both grandmothers’ stories lead the filmmaker to confront her parents about her own silence on sexual abuse in the family. For the sake of the three, she must break the silence.