The Transit Camp — Season 1, Episode 2: It's all Sugar
Drama, Comedy • 42 min • 1 season, 9 episodes
Episode synopsis
After Salah starts selling sugar at his café, Matanya Boiler makes sure to stir up a feud between him and Victor, the grocery store manager. Eliyahu, who is struggling to find work, is forced to accept an offer from his Tripolitan neighbor Khalifa to work for him making alcoholic beverages, but lies to his wife and children, telling them he found a good job as a manager. Also: Mimon, Khalifa’s criminal brother, gets him involved in a shady deal.
About The Transit Camp
A comedy-drama starring Shalom Assayag, who also created the series alongside his son Daniel Assayag, and which feels like a spiritual prequel to their previous collaborative series, “The '80s” and “The '90s,” though this time without Meni Assayag as a writer. The plot goes back in time to 1950s Israel and follows Eliyahu Ben Simon (Assayag) and his family, who arrived from Morocco straight into the overcrowded, difficult, and precarious life of an immigrant transit camp. As they try to find their place in their new country, the family members are forced to deal with bureaucracy, neighbors, and a reality that doesn’t always match the dream that brought them here—but always with humor and a zest for life.