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About Free Zone
Rebecca
(Natalie Portman) is a young American woman living in
Jerusalem
.Rebecca abruptly breaks her
engagement to her Israeli fiancé Julio (Aki Avni), and impulsively jumps into a
taxi and asks the driver to take her anywhere, as long as it’s away from the
place where she and Julio just broke up.The
cab driver, Hanna (Hanna Laszlo), reluctantly allows Rebecca to accompany her on
an errand to
Jordan
’s Free Zone.There Hanna is
scheduled to meet “The American (Makram Khoury),” her husband Moshe’s (Uri
Klauzner) Palestinian business partner who owes the couple a considerable sum of
money.When the women reach the
appointed rendezvous site, they learn that “The American” has vanished along
with the money.Hanna eventually
persuades a Palestinian woman named Leila (Hiam Abbass) to take them to the
oasis where “The American” lives.The
ensuing journey is riddled with thugs and political intrigue.