A Touch AwayA Touch Away takes a slice of contemporary Tel Aviv life and spins a marvellous multi-family drama that will leave you glued to your seat and wanting more.
The series focuses on two families whose lives intersect in an apartment complex in the Orthodox neighbourhood of Bnei Barak near Tel Aviv. The Bermans are a strictly religious Haredi family, whose daughter Rochal'e is about to enter into an arranged marriage. Enter the Mintzes, a newly arrived and thoroughly secular cosmopolitan family from Russia, along with their son Zorik.
From this sharply drawn situation, director Ron Ninio mercifully avoids the usual clichés and stereotypes to create a powerful, unfolding drama in which both families are pulled together by circumstances and also torn apart by the forbidden love that buds between Zorik and Rochal'e.
A Touch Away never fails to entertain, as it effortlessly draws us into the world of each family without judgement or condescension, even when events challenge deeply rooted cultural assumptions and individual family members' beliefs.
20th anniversary retrospective.
