Tel Aviv, 1937. A fraudulent and hedonistic land broker is accused of murdering his employee, an engineer called Zwanger. The victim’s body was found two weeks after he was reported missing, buried under the water tower on the accused’s land. The witnesses take the stand and unravel the case: a business feud turned into a shocking scandal the shook the entire Jewish community.

True to Film Noir tradition, what starts as a lacklustre trial turns into a riveting tale involving Freemasons, Turkish arms dealers, a Nazi spy network, Jewish double agents and the Haganah’s Intelligence and Special Ops units.