The Samaritans, a tiny religious sect, are dying out. But they still maintain extremely harsh rules against assimilation: if you leave the fold, you and your family are as good as dead.
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 follows Sophie, the youngest daughter in the family. She is now a TV personality who goes on a journey to confront her family’s open wounds in an attempt to understand who the real victim of their shattered home was.
Lone Samaritan is a story of father-daughter relationship that 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.
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 follows Sophie, the youngest daughter in the family. She is now a TV personality who goes on a journey to confront her family’s open wounds in an attempt to understand who the real victim of their shattered home was.
Lone Samaritan is a story of father-daughter relationship that 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.
Ynet (Yediot Ahronot)
8 October 2009 Ynet: “The dying fire of Samaritans” Interview with Barak Heymann (Israel, Hebrew)