Ari and his old friend stay late in the bar and his friend told Ari about the nightmare that keeps recurring every night. Twenty six fierce dogs are chasing him every night and he can never run away from them. Two friends guess that the nightmare is connected with their past, when two fellows took part in the war against Lebanon. In 1982 Ari’s fellow was assigned to kill all twenty six dogs in the village of their enemies. They needed to eliminate these dogs because the dogs could have alerted Lebanese warriors about forthcoming of Israeli Army. Ari’s friend succeeded to kill all dogs and his mission was completed, but the dogs have been coming in his nightmares ever since. While Ari listens to this story he starts realizing that he can hardly remember anything about this period of his life during the war. He understands that there is something important that he needs to reminisce and he decides to start looking back by meeting his comrades. But he has no idea what kind of changes it will bring to his life…
On the outskirts of the city, in an old apartment building, at one floor two women are living. They are both prisoners of circumstance and they find solace in friendship. Galia was born in the Ukraine, but fell in with a band of gangsters who've forced her into a career as a prostitute in Israel. Galia's minders offer to let he go back home to her family and the daughter she left behind, but in exchange she must kill one of their enemies. Galia agrees to the deal, but after murdering her target the gangsters renege on their pledge and keep her locked up in a Tel Aviv flat. Galia gets to know Elinor, a woman living next door who lives under the thumb of her violent husband, and as they strike up a friendship born of a mutual desire for freedom, they look for a way out of their desperate lives. They are frightened and defenseless, but for the sake of gaining freedom they are ready to go till the end...