Ellie (38) doesn’t want to be here. She left her hometown as a rejected young woman with a big mouth and a dominant jawline. Now she’s back with the same big mouth and a jawline that cost her the last of her savings. And it’s all because Zohar (38) decided to stir up the past.
As Zohar starts planning the special 20-year memorial of Dror Peretz’s death, she can’t shake the feeling she has had for years: something’s off. Sure, the police called it a tragic self-inflicted accident, but Dror was a star athlete, an outstanding student, and a really hot guy. Guys like him don’t just turn up half-naked and completely dead inside the trunk of their own car after a Purim costume party. And for Zohar, it’s personal. Dror was her husband Yiftach’s (38) adored older brother. Zohar is determined to reveal Dror’s real killer at the memorial event, taking place in one month.
When Ellie gets a thrilled message from Zohar about her new investigation, she thinks it would be easy to talk her out of it. But Zohar is too stubborn, and Ellie realizes the only way to derail the case is to get on a plane and join it. Zohar has no idea that Ellie, the new Watson to her Sherlock, is the very person she’s trying to hunt down.
And since Ellie’s already forced into what’s basically a never-ending high school reunion with the people who made her teenage years a living hell, she figures, why not use this opportunity to settle some scores and get revenge?
Bad Blood, based on the graphic novel by Tamar Blumenfeld, is a dark detective comedy that pairs up the detective and the murderer, two ex-best friends, as they each confront the defining trauma that shaped their lives. It’s not a “whodunit”, but a “whydunit”.
For Ellie, it’s also a coming-of-age story for someone who’s long overdue for one. She will have to finally stop using the past as an excuse and face the sins she’s worked so hard to bury.