 Or shoulders a lot: she s 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She s just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or s emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she s in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or s choices narrow.