A high-ranking official in the Israeli secret service is handed a new brief: go undercover as an aspiring novelist to befriend Daphna, an Israeli writer, and her friend Hani, a renowned Palestinian poet. The target is Hani's son Yotam, a wanted terrorist leader. As the agent becomes ingrained in Daphna and Hani's lives, his own sense of right and wrong is clouded. The writers have awoken new feelings, yet his sense of duty remains. At the final moment he must choose between his professional loyalties and the long dormant feelings his new friendships have awoken.