The story of the love of three men for one woman, the mother of their son Zaida. A plot that spans about thirty years - from the 1920s to the 1950s and takes place in a village in the Jezreel Valley. The woman is Jewish and the men: Moshe Rabinovitz, a widower farmer Kabir - Kokh and Shekhan, on whose farm she lives, the cattle dealer Hegs Gloverman, and Jacob Sheinfeld, an expert in cooking, sewing, courtship and dancing. And other participants: Rabinovitz's wife, his son, daughter and brothers and his household members, the bookkeeper for Bekan, Papish - the village and Papish - the city, Rachel the Ayalonite cow, an Italian prisoner, crows and canaries, boats - Nir, the angel of death, an old and green van, a golden braid, a river Goa and large eucalyptus.
