Amit and Galit are childhood sweethearts living in the very traditional Israeli town of Nahariya. After 20 years of marriage, Amit comes out as transgender woman. Despite personal difficulties and social stigmas, the family members insist on staying together, believing that love will overcome all difficulties. Even though Galit and their children, all disarmingly reflective and open-minded, support Amit in every way they can, the reassignment process takes its toll on the family. FAMILY IN TRANSITION offers an intimate, candid, and stirring portrait of the family.
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An intensely intimate profile of a transgender woman and her wife and children, that refuses to sugarcoat the challenges faced by the family.
Amit and Galit are childhood sweethearts living in the very traditional Israeli town of Nahariya. After 20 years of marriage, Amit comes out as transgender woman. Despite personal difficulties and social stigmas, the family members insist on staying together, believing that love will overcome all difficulties.
Even though Galit and their children, all disarmingly reflective and open-minded, support Amit in every way they can, the reassignment process takes its toll on the family. FAMILY IN TRANSITION offers an intimate, candid, and stirring portrait of the family.