Maor Harel
Broken
Collective
One sea. Two shores. One red thread.
Three young people – a discharged soldier in Jaffa, his sixteen-year-old sister, and a boy from Gaza’s Shati camp – and six years in which the world cracked: a pandemic, protest, war. Between them, only a thin thread of football, love and freedom.
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The characters
Alex
Discharged Golani soldier, Hapoel ultra, believer only in his own freedom.
Natalie
Sixteen, in lockdown. A quiet rebel looking for a boundary to kick.
Mehran
A boy from the Shati camp. Maths, dreams of machines, and a secret love for red.