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PROPHET

PROPHET
By Avner Givoni

GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE:

A high-tech service technician, secular, gets a job against his will, to be a prophet.
Soon after, he is fired and all his efforts to get a job fail. He becomes homeless because of the shame he feels towards his wife and child that he can't support. He begins to spend his days along Tel Aviv's boardwalk and along the Yarkon River. He begins to speech his prophecies that arise in his mind and only then, his headaches leaves him. He becomes a public figure due to the exposure of the media, thus creating social and  political turmoils. All this against the background of a terrible war that is approaching.

SYNOPSIS:

Yoram, a training specialist in the field of high-tech, returns on the evening of a working day from the north to his home in Ramat Gan. It's already night when Yoram, close to Netanya, suddenly discovers that a "stranger" is sitting next to him in the car. In the panic that attacks Yoram, he almost loses control of the car, but the "stranger" grabs the steering wheel and takes over. At the same time he 'calms down' Yoram. One or two kilometers later they deviate from the road and go in to drink coffee in a cafe on the edge of the road. There the stranger reveals to Yoram that he is "the chosen one". The stranger warns Yoram that soon he will have a very important role for his people and that his future and the future of his family are about to change completely.

Late at night, Yoram's attempt to treat the matter as a joke does not go over well when his wife Iris finds a receipt for two cups of coffee in his pants pocket.

A week later, Yoram is unexpectedly fired from the high-tech company where he works, even though he is one of the company's veterans. His attempts to find a job come to naught. Everywhere he goes he is rejected. His wife Iris is in more and more distress because the school year is coming up, the mortgage is pressing and their savings are running out very quickly.

Little by little, without him being able to resist it, Yoram disconnects from "reality" and horrific visions begin to haunt his fevered mind. Most of his days are spent wandering the Tel Aviv beach and in the evening, every evening he fights with himself whether to return to his home. His brother-in-law persuades him to go to work and even finally sends him to a prearranged job, but when Yoram arrives at the workplace, the business owner is taken away in a Kadisha company car...

Only when Yoram stands in front of a crowd, at mall entrances, on a boulevard or on an overturned boat on the beach and prophesies his wrathful prophecies do his headaches go away for a while. With me, a young TV reporter decides to follow the prophet day and night and report "from the field." He soon makes the "prophet" the hot topic of the news and at the same time his career soars. Interest in the prophet becomes enormous. People in the street follow him, children tail him and choruses of fans and opponents collide with each other wherever he stops and cause riots.

Iris his wife is under heavy pressure of ungrateful and paid work, and a lack of understanding from her boss and her family. A random meeting of Iris with an old friend of hers, who tries to seduce her, drags her into a great emotional turmoil. At the same time, all these are intertwined in the story of events that stir up the country. The departure of high-tech companies abroad, the flight of an entire kibbutz with its inhabitants abroad in the middle of the night, a revolt of foreign workers in the old central station of Tel Aviv, youth violence alongside volunteering and volunteering operations for the common good. A special order of the Minister of Health involuntarily admits the prophet to an insane asylum for a diagnosis, which creates a fierce political storm that reaches the court. At the hospital for the mentally ill in the dead of night, Mati finds out, the main brother instead of Yoram. Mati offers him his help and visits the Prophet's house the next day in an attempt to help. From then on he accompanies the prophet who is released from the hospital in the meantime and cares for and protects him at night, at the same time as his work at the institution. Iris is subject to great temptation when her old friend comes to her house to pick her up, but a girl who returns bruised and injured from school due to bullying by children at school stops the drift at the last minute. At the same time as Matti, Helena, the director of the psychiatric institution, assembles a cluster of the "stranger" and tries to locate him. The criminals of the city and its prostitutes offer Matthias, as the messenger of the prophet, their patronage and protection. Following the prophet, a number of new charlatan "prophets" suddenly appear in the market, while the confused religious public is incited by the rabbis against the 'secular prophet'. To their dismay, the religious leaders announce that the prophet must bring "signs and miracles" to be considered a prophet. Yoram becomes abandoned and rejected, no one listens to him anymore. Defeated and discouraged, he sits on the eve of Yom at the Yarkon estuary. The "stranger" suddenly appears next to him and gives him final instructions. In a night meeting at Itai's house, Yoram parted ways with him and the role of "being a prophet". That night, when the television broadcasts the return of the prophet to his home, a bright gray light suddenly emanates from the television receivers and mesmerizes the people in the houses and streets, the dark sky is also lit up with a glowing gray light and people get out of their vehicles, onto the streets, onto the balconies to watch the supernatural phenomenon. At this exact time the prophet returns and goes up the stairs of his house. The door opens and he disappears inside it with a slam. When he was called to arrive at the White City at night, and there he was destined to become the "next prophet".

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