IN THE silence of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman make wild and passionate love in a dingy apartment in Tel Aviv. They met only hours before, when a brutal police officer handcuffed them together. He released them, but they remained inseparable because Israel stands still on Yom Kippur: No vehicles may move on the roads LOVE SONG TO A STRANGER is set in Israel during the Palestinian uprising of October, 2000. Yossi and Samira are the strangers. He once owned a successful business in Tel Aviv and he led an active social life. Now he is penniless, friendless, celibate, and threatened by a blackmailer. She was born in Texas to Palestinian refugees. As a teenager, she had a steamy affair with a rough biker. Her Moslem family discovered her sin and as punishment sent her to Palestine to enter into a forced, unconsummated marriage. For eleven years her only relief from her lonely life of drudgery is her erotic fantasies. Yossi's blackmailers send Samira to meet him in Tel Aviv on the day before Yom Kippur. If they reveal their identities to each other, they can take the money and escape to a new life. But they keep their secrets for the sake of their hours of passion. When Yom Kippur ends, they part and their fortunes change. But they cannot move on. They must meet again. LOVE SONG TO A STRANGER is not about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it is all about it. It is the story of two people obsessed by their own problems. They cannot however escape the war ticking in the background, like the bomb in Samira's bag. They are a couple made in hell, but made for each other.