An Arab surgeon living peacefully in Tel-Aviv finds out his wife is a suicide bomber.

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For the first time, a prestigious prize is given by an Israeli institution to an Arab surgeon – doubly touching for Dr. Amin Jaafari, as he's perfectly integrated into Tel-Aviv, where his talents are appreciated by family and friends. The next day, terror strikes. As he's operating on the children who have been victim to the attack, he finds out that his own wife may have been the suicide bomber. The news floors him as he tries to figure out how the woman he loved could do such a thing and how she could have hidden the bomb in the maternity clothes they had other plans for. He sets out to find the people who manipulated his wife, a quest that turns painful as he is confronted with the reality of Tel Aviv, the city where he used to live in peace...

Inspired by the novel of the same name by Yasmina Khedra, The Attack uses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a backdrop for this story of a couple who each adopts a radically different method of dealing with this great divide between two peoples. A heavy and tragic subject in itself, treated with remarkable subtlety and excellently interpreted.