Lover for your wife

Julie (33), a talented French cartoonist who also teaches French, and Yossi (31), an Israeli human rights N.G.O. manager, have everything they need to be happy, but they're not. They have a problem. Libby, their three-year-old daughter, still doesn't speak at all.

After going to a therapist, they realize that their main problem is their lack of communication. It is not Libby; it's the libido. Julie is strangled living in Israel, and the worst thing for her is that she doesn't feel loved and desired by Yossi. She intends to move to Paris in 3 months and take Libby with her.  Yossi is terrified. He can't stand the idea that his beloved daughter will not live with him in the same country, but he cannot leave Israel because of his job and elderly parents.

Yossi comes up with a "brilliant" idea: The only way to keep Julie and Libby in Israel is to find Julie a local lover, someone who wouldn't consider leaving Israel and who would hold her and Libby close. Yossi thinks that the only problem with his plan is that he has to be clever and discreet: if Julie discovers it, she might be so upset that she will leave him and Israel immediately. Yossi has three months to find the right lover.

In the beginning, Yossi manages to set some dates for Julie. But after two people hit on her, she realizes something weird is going on. She decides to check her doubts. She takes advantage of the situation and fulfills some of her secret fantasies, using Yossi as a personal Tinder.

But they go too far and lose themselves on the way. Julie decides to leave him and Israel forever. They fly to Paris to set their separation, but Libby suddenly speaks for the 1st time. She says, in Hebrew, she wants to go home. She wants them to be together.  Julie is so moved by her daughter's first words that she decides to go back to Israel for a while. Now, they are stuck in Israel, and they agree that they will try to find together the right lover for Julie. The problem is that they really need not another lover but to find a way to love each other again.

On the surface, "Lover for Your Wife" is a light comedy of remarriage about a relationship in crisis, but underneath lie darker themes that are deeply emotional and affect the life of anyone who is, or wishes to, stay in a relationship for the long run. If we had to find a lover for our partners, could we do it? Do we really know what their actual fantasies are? Do we even WANT to know? 

In this series, we intend to explore the idea of life partnership and whether it should be preserved at all costs. Is it even possible to maintain a monogamous satisfying partnership for long these days? And what is the price of these life choices?

The series will also ask questions regarding the feasibility of a bicultural life partnership between people of different cultural environments and, precisely, the level of openness in both Israeli and French communities toward accepting what is strange and different from their backgrounds.