Synopsis
TRANSIT explores the intersecting stories of Filipinos in Tel Aviv when the threat of a
law deporting the children of migrant workers looms their precarious lives. Janet
(Adlawan), a domestic worker on an expired visa, struggles to hide her half-Israeli
daughter, Yael (Curtis-Smith) —a rebellious teenager caught up in a juvenile romance.
Most endangered in the situation is four-year old Joshua (Alvarez), whom Janet and
Yael protect because the boy’s father, Moises (Medina), works on weekdays as a
caregiver in the city of Herzliya. The film also explores the life of a young lady, Tina
(Cabral), who arrives to start a new life in Israel.
Transit examines what it means to be a family and what it means to be a stranger, within one's home and in a foreign land.