Lone Samaritan

Thursday April 15, Green Rd. Synagogue

As a tiny sect constantly in danger of extinction, the Samaritans have very harsh rules about assimilation. After Sophie Tzdaka and her three sisters left the community, one after the other, the family became subject to terrible physical and mental harassment by sect members.

Director Barak Heymann ("Bridge over the Wadi", "Dancing Alfonso") follows Sophie, who is the youngest daughter as well as a TV personality, on a journey to uncover her family's secrets in an attempt to understand who is the real victim of their shattered home.
Lone Samaritan is a touching father-daughter journey, which raises universal issues of belonging, faith and identity, and forces its heroes to confront the difficult isolation of those who seek a personal path within a closed tribal world.