At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, Yulie Cohen sensitively documents her own personal search for understanding once again in MY BROTHER, the final film in Cohen’s documentary trilogy. As in the first two films, MY TERRORIST and MY LAND ZION, Cohen turns the lens on her own family as she tries to make sense of her country and her fellow citizens. This time, she begins her investigation with her brother, who chose a different way of life 25 years ago when he became an ultra-orthodox Jew and lost contact with her family.

As Cohen struggles with loneliness at the end of a twenty-year marriage and copes with the aging and ill health of her parents, she searches for a way to reconnect with her lost brother. Writing letter after letter to him, Cohen reaches out and begins to learn about ultra-orthodox life. She studies the pluralistic aspects of Judaism, slowly working her way through to a deeper understanding of both the religion and its political ramifications in Israel. In a country where deep distrust exists between the religious and the secular, and when the whole world is facing violence and hatred based on religious fundamentalism, she finds no simple answers.