A story of the influence of modern life on a woman, who meets a man in a sculptor's studio, has an affair, and is found dead.

An American reporter and his girl-friend are visiting Israel to get a "sense of the people", in the process he meets many Israelis and some Arabs as well, particularly becoming friends with an Israeli Army reserve officer as well as an idealistic young man who is a pacifist.

several parallel plotlines set on the eve of the Six-Day War. The stories play out concurrently as a way of conveying the reality of life in Israel, where the national and political are forever invading the individual’s space.