Jellyfish is a serio-comic ensemble wherein multiple lives intersect and occasionally touch. Laced with a whimsy to complement the angst, the characters live their lives against the backdrop of an allegorical sea. Among them are caterer Batya, forced to look inward when a little girl emerges from the sea and promptly attaches herself to Batya; Keren and Michael, whose honeymoon plans dashed when the bride breaks her leg, inadvertently leading them to find new meaning in their lives; Joy, a Filipina domestic intensely aware of her ironic position as a caregiver to other people’s families; and Malka, a client vicariously connecting to her own daughter through Joy. As Geffen and Keret summarize, “Each of the main strands works as a different facet of a similar state of being ? a different aspect of a single overriding mood of existential loneliness, steeped in the unrequited need for affection and communication.”