Our sto­ry opens with Mrs. Lilien­blum dis­cov­ered drink­ing a mar­ti­ni in a crater in the Israeli desert. Eli, her adult son, tries to under­stand what hap­pened to his wacky moth­er, while he also tack­les the leg­end of a miss­ing hik­er named McMur­phy, and whether he might be in love with Tama­ra, a vis­i­tor to his family’s hos­tel on the edge of a crater.

The sto­ry races for­ward as the Lilien­blum fam­i­ly builds a com­pa­ny around Eli’s mother’s inven­tion and makes com­e­dy out of start­up cul­ture, the obses­sion with com­pa­ny val­u­a­tion and fund­ing, the secrets fam­i­lies keep, roman­tic and fam­i­ly love – all with humor, warmth and compassion.