Seventeen-year-old Or is a lovely young woman with a real trouper′s spirit. Her still-striking single mom Ruthie has been hooking for 20 years and her health is deteriorating. After a stint in the hospital for Ruthie, enterprising Or makes her mom promise to go straight and finds her a job cleaning a woman′s house. Ruthie takes the job and seems mildly enthused but still can′t get rid of her need to service men for money. Or attends high school more or less regularly, scrubs dishes at a restaurant, collects cans and bottles for the deposit and cleans the stairs of their modest Tel Aviv apartment building. Or and the neighbor′s son Ido enjoy a blossoming romance but circumstances conspire to put a price on Or′s young flesh. Or is admirably self- reliant; her mother calls her by the film′s French title "my treasure" between bouts of self-destructive behavior. Or is a portrait of two hardworking women working way too hard for dead end returns.