Edna Fliedel

Aliza mizrahi, the building cleaner, solves a murder where the police fails

The time: 1970, the end of the War of Attrition. Mossi, Arah'le, Margo, Zvillich, Kobi, Naomi and Shosh – the protagonists of Late Summer Blues – live out their last summer vacation at the beach, in the streets, and on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, throwing caution to the wind as if there were no tomorrow, as if they were going to die tomorrow.

A good-natured but incorrigible layabout becomes embroiled in a plot to rob the Israeli lottery, all the while indulging in his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.

Clara, a polish born Jew, living in Tel Aviv of the 1970's, has her ideas about how people should behave, and runs everybody's life accordingly: her husband, her sisters, their husbands, their children, her brother who lives in London (probably because it was the only way to get away from her...). Whenever something "improper" does happen, Clara's way of handling it is simply to shove it under the carpet and ignore it completely, as if it never happened. 3 basic rules, are, of course: 1. Never marry some one "under" your class (Or the class you think you are). 2. Never become pregnant out of wedlock and 3. No Abortions. As one may expect, everything crumbles when her niece gives her no option, but to break at least one of those rules