yafa arieli wanted to marry her daughter to mike, a young american visiting in israel, son of a texas tycoon, but her daughter tamara is in love with micha, a nahal officer and a poor kibbutznik. during his flight to israel, mike saw in the newspaper a picture of a yemenite soldier, fell in love and swore to find her. eventually, mike finds nilli, the yemenite soldier who lives in a kibbutz in the negev region, and decides to become a kibbutznik.