Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. During the famine that broke out at the end of 1984/85, Israel and the United States of America helped transport to Israel several thousand Ethiopian Jews known as “Falashas” or, in Hebrew “Bet Israel”. This enterprise was known as “Operation Moses”. The protagonist is a little non Hebrew boy who, in the midst of the turmoil, has been persuaded by his mother to pretend to be a Jew so as to avoid dying of hunger. In Israel he pretends to be an orphan and is adopted by a family of Sephardic Jews who have emigrated from France. The boy grows up and learns about Judaism and western values, he also experiments racism (he is black) and the war in the country’s occupied zone.
