After sixteen years of almost complete estrangement, two brothers meet up to sell the furniture belonging to their father, who died a few years ago.

Victor, a police officer about to retire after 28 years of service, is a mild, compliant, embittered man. His brother Walter is a successful surgeon whose professional ambition and pursuit of wealth led him to a nervous breakdown, divorce, and a change of direction in life.

The two return to the apartment where they once set out on their separate paths, hoping it will give them the strength to face the rest of their lives. What begins as an attempt at reconciliation between the brothers, both scarred by pain and failure, soon turns into a brutal confrontation as the baggage of their shared past becomes ammunition in their fight. Their parents’ relationship, and especially each brother’s relationship with their father after their mother’s death, form a dark, threatening backdrop to their efforts to grow closer.

Into this arena enter two additional characters: Esther, the wife of one of the brothers, tries to bridge the gap between them with warmth, understanding and sensitivity; and then there is ninety-year-old used-furniture dealer Solomon, a lively and amusing Russian Jew. Like a magician of bargaining, he uses his life experience, cheeky humor and playful cunning to maneuver between the brothers and manipulate them even in seemingly impossible situations. Of the four, Solomon is the only one to leave the arena with a smile; the others return to the corners of their frustrated lives, licking their wounds from the encounter.

Tension, humor, sharp wit and hard-earned wisdom are woven together into this family drama.