A literary mystery, set in New York City and bohemian Tel Aviv. After his successful first novel, Meir suffers writers block. Then his father, poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died decades earlier, contacts him and they arrange to meet. Fragmented, troubling memories of a forgotten childhood time spent alone with his father rise to Meirs consciousness. While solving these riddles of the past, Meir inhabits the borderland between memory and artistic creation. There he finds emotions so deeply tangled in his being that they can only be expressed through art. He begins to write again a story of a loving son who witnessed a seduction and perhaps also a murder.

Originally published: Ha-Nashim shel aba. Jerusalem : Keter, 2005. "A Karen and Michael Braziller book."