Synopsis: While the Israeli Kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian movements, Sweet Mud, tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community ill equipped to cope with individuality and deviations from a rigidly defined norm, and of an adolescent boy stretching to compensate for what the collective cannot provide. Vividly capturing the vagaries of the ‘70s kibbutz life with gorgeous, glowing camera-work, Sweet mud is the painful coming of age of a child who marshals all his resources to nurture his own parent. The story also becomes a wrenching allegory for the casualties of any society that fails o tend to its members vulnerabilities.