A little Yiddish Proverb, and may your prayers too be turned to blessings this Yom Kippur weekend.
“Prayers go up and blessings come down."
Re Yom Kippur and the screenplay. What a graphic way to lead into Hana's life story. This special day for Jews, both religious and secular, is the holiest and most scared of days in the Jewish calender. A day of atonement, a day of repentance. A 25 hour fast. It's often called a Day of Awe.
How can Hana atone for what she did eighteen years ago?
Here is where the film story could start:
Holocaust survivor Hana, long since given up on her faith, but cannot give up Yom Kippur like many other Jews, leaves the synagogue (which she only visits on this day each year), and strolls awkwardly, she has a hip problem, in the autumn sunshine in Paris.
Suddenly she stops short, bewitched by the hauntingly beautiful sounds of a young violinist busking. Hana slumps onto a cafe chair which faces a pretty leafy square.
Yom Kippur.
The Day of Atonement.
In seconds Hana's transported into her turbulent past. The music opens her inner world . Gripping her sketchbook in both hands, she relives the abduction of her granddaughter Samira.
How could she possibly have colluded in this terrible act?
How can she ever make amends to her estranged daughter?
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