Having crossed the middle of life's path, Rafael Meyer is a long-liver in his family, where all men die young, overtaken by accidental death. He grew up in a Jerusalem quarter, in the corners of which stood the buildings of the House of the Blind, the House of the Insane and the House of Orphans, and was brought up in a family of five women - three young widows, a stern grandmother and a mocking sister. His wife left him, went to a “reliable person” - and returned to take her ex-husband as her lover. Raphael spends his days between his home in the deserted Negev Desert and his former home in Jerusalem, constantly returning to the memories of his childhood and youth to unravel two painful family secrets - what connects the beautiful Red Aunt with his older friend, the stonemason Abraham, and his mother with a mysterious blind teacher from the House of the Blind.