The Film
The Two Moons and Olive are two boys and a girl (Zaytouna), the film takes place at the beginning of the 1960s. The father who is completely paralyzed after been injured during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the mother (Norman Asaad) who is suffering from sexual deprivation and loneliness, which make her a cruel woman punishing her son severely because he sucks on his finger and her daughter because she sympathizes with him, by shaving their hair completely.
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