The movie begins with a question – who is Miri Nishri? This question will continue to haunt us as the mystery unravels but is never to be resolved. Many characters puzzled by this enigma are looking at us from the screen with various answers, only more puzzling.
Some of them claim that they were Miri Nishri for a while, others give vague details of the life and identity of a woman of that name as fuzzy memories of a long forgotten meeting or relation. Miri is an entity build from random associations and shreds of being and identities who seldom add up.
Miri Nishri is revealed as an elusive entity – the sum and quotient of different identities: homeless, whore, artist, elderly child or fertile mother, Jewish saint or orthodox Christian. The clichés of the collective identity shatter on the walls of an individual one who knows no boundaries of the flesh, and is wandering from body to body. Throughout the movie a baby will surface, his fate uncertain – maybe abandoned, dead or resurrected.
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