Mendy (Oren Rehany) is a rabbinical student who has sex on the brain. His rabbi, recognizing the trouble, finds what he says is a Talmudic basis for suggesting that Mendy go to a whorehouse to have a sexual experience that will free his mind. When he follows the advice, he meets Sasha (Tchelet Semel), a young woman from Russia who works at a Tel Aviv joint called The Love Boat and takes clients into the back room for what is euphemistically called a massage.

Mendy, hopelessly impressionable, falls for Sasha, who tries to be hard as nails and not become involved with her customers. Of course, that's a façade. She harbors longings for a better life, but Mendy faces more than an inexperienced man can cope with in the situation. He is torn between Sasha and his religious beliefs. But God is no match for Sasha.

Mendy heads for Jerusalem to work in the bar run by the volatile Mike, a customer of Sasha's, and Sasha turns up there too. Other characters who Mike knows are Razi (Albert Illuz), an Arab involved in wheeling and dealing, and a hotheaded Israeli known as The Exterminator (Arie Moskuna). It soon becomes clear that Mendy is being taken advantage of, but how is left in abeyance until the climax.

Semel as Sasha is cute and at times poignant. She gives a strong impression as an immigrant struggling to get along as best she can, and one roots for Sasha and Mendy to somehow break through and get together permanently. But the odds are great.