The guests arrive without diplomatic fanfare, without any security details. Terje collects everyone in a rental car. Four people gather in the impressive foyer: two professors from the University of Haifa, Yair Hirschfeld (Doval’e Glickman) and Ron Pundak (Rotem Keinan), and, on the other side, Ahmed Qurei (Salim Dau), the PLO Finance Minister and his interlocutor Hassan Asfour (Waleed Zuaiter). The atmosphere is dark and suspicious. Terje gives a nice speech about the fact that they will all be “friends” here. He ordered cases of alcohol to “ease” the process of making friends, which works at first, but with a few annoying hiccups. A little conversation about their childhood derails when the Marxist Hassan haughtily says: “The petty-bourgeois construction of the family does not interest me. Alright then! Sometimes they yell at each other, sometimes they burst out laughing, while Mona and Terje sit on the sidelines, watching anxiously from the doorway, like nervous parents who feared