Crossing the middle of his life path, Rafael Meyer is a long-lived man of his kind, where all men die young, overtaken by accidental death. He grew up in the Jerusalem quarter, at the corners of which were the buildings of the House of the Blind, the House of the Demented and the House of Orphans, and was brought up in a family of five women - three young widows, a stern grandmother and a mocking sister. His wife left him, went to a "reliable person" - and returned to take her ex-husband as lovers. Raphael spends his days between his home in the desert of the Negev and his former home in Jerusalem. and return to the memories of childhood and youth , to solve two painful family secrets - which connects the beautiful Red Aunt with his older friend, the stonemason Abraham, and his mother - with the mysterious blind teacher from the House of the Blind