The elegant and moving final film in Gitai's trilogy about Israeli cities is set in Mea Shearim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. A chamber piece, it centers on two sisters and three men and slowly, devastatingly reveals that their restrictive religion offers them no options. Meir and Rivka have been married for ten years but have no children. The rabbi insists he follow Talmudic law and take another wife. Similarily he ordains that Malka marry a man other than the one she loves. The film begins with a beautiful long-take of Meir readying himself for prayers: "Thank you, oh Lord, for not having made me a woman." Filming almost entirely indoors, often in long, still shots, Gitai etches the ritual and rigor of life in the closed-in world of Mea Shearim as it erodes the life of its inhabitants.