Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995, as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Three weeks later, Gitai explored the aftermath of his death. He compulsively traversed the country for three months-journeying through the Golan Heights, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Haifa, talking with Lea Rabin, military commanders, civilians, and recording a concert of pop star Aviv Geffen. In his most personal film, Gitai includes his own emotional reactions. "In this melancholic undertaking no one image seems adequate," Laurent Roth wrote in Cahiers du Cinema. "The film borrows from all forms of cinema-investigative documentary, autobiographic film, road movie, rock movie-finally to be satisfied with none of these. And yet...this cinematic mausoleum finds its coherence gradually weaving the threads of dialogue between the dead man and all those places and people that Gitai convokes to his mental arena."