2000年，长达18年的南黎巴嫩武装冲突接近尾声。爆破兵阿莫兹（阿米•温伯格 Ami Weinberg 饰）被派往波弗特堡，一座12世纪十字军东征时建立起来的要塞，进行拆弹。前哨指挥官里拉兹（奥斯瑞•科恩 Oshri Cohen 饰）因其傲慢的态度和强迫阿莫兹不顾危险拆弹的命令引起了哨兵们的不满，尤其是一名叫克雷斯（伊泰•提伦 Itay Tiran 饰）的哨兵。与此同时，以色列即将从波弗特堡撤兵的流言在军中散布，而黎巴嫩真主党的导弹攻势却一日强过一日。里拉兹面对战友们一个接一个的牺牲，精神状态日益消沉……
本片获柏林电影节银熊奖，以色列电影协会最佳艺术指导、最佳摄像、最佳剪辑、最佳音效四项大奖，并被提名2008年奥斯卡最佳外语片，并获以色列电影协会最佳影片、最佳男主角（奥斯瑞•科恩）、最佳导演（约瑟夫•斯达）、最佳剧本、最佳服装和最佳音乐六项提名。

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers.
Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors.
A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village.
Forgiveness (Mechilot) tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin.
Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization. A 10-year old female ghost holds the secret to the riddle. But only when the secret is revealed can she find rest and give David the option to end a perpetually-repeated destiny...
Doctor Itzhik Shemesh, a psychiatrist at the mental institute, injects David with a chemo-technological drug in an attempt to build a bridge over the trauma zone and allow David to live a normal life. Even though he doubts its ethical consequences, his use of the drug is an act that mirrors his own deep denial...
Doctor Shemesh is given permission to use the drug by David's father, Henry Adler, a Holocaust survivor who spent a short time in Israel before becoming one of the most pre-eminent musicians in America.
Henry, who has the arrogance of Oedipus and faith in the rational overcoming of trauma via action, doesn't understand why his son has been hospitalized. But Henry's lust for life and his desire for normality make him live in denial of the past, which is unbearable for David, whose restless soul seeks the truth. Henry will confront a horror beyond all horrors when the truth reveals itself.
A blind patient in the hospital named Muselmann, also a Holocaust survivor, tells David to listen to the ghosts that are haunting him, that they have something important to tell him.
Like the blind prophet Tiresias, Muselmann knows that the truth does not hold redemption, and this is why he never tried to reconstruct his life after the camps. Because he lives between the world of the dead and the living, Muselmann can act as a conduit between the murdered ghosts and David.
The flashbacks and flashforwards from the mental institute reveal, with the story of David�s life, the story of the eternal return of the trauma and a destiny that seems unalterable... --© Official Site
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故事描述一个普通家庭卷入一场巨大的政治阴谋——这起事件不仅改变了这家人的命运，也影响到国家安全。艾美奖得主Toni Collette（《塔拉合众国》）在该剧中扮演主人公Ellen，一个事业成功的华盛顿外科医生。美国政府挑选她为患病的总统实施手术，但她的家人突然遭到绑架，她意识到一场巨大的政治阴谋已经降临到自己头上。现在她必须小心考虑自己的选择，以最安全的方式救出丈夫和孩子。