Mitla Pass

Gideon Zadok, desperate to resurrect his career after succumbing to the lure of Hollywood, travels to Israel, determined to find material for a new book. There, he finds Natasha Solomon, a survivor of the Holocaust, and her disturbed passion for him unleashes his own smouldering desires.

Then, on the eve of the ’56 Sinai War, he abandons her and joins the Israeli forces and is parachuted to the keyjunction of Mitla Pass where, amid the sounds of battle, Gideon wages a warno less violent within himself, as he strives to come to grips with the frightening power of love-hate,