Director: Shachar Chasman.
A young couple celebrates their honeymoon in the Golan Heights. As they prepare to exercise their love on the marital bed, the bride scrapes her ring finger on a rose thorn.
The nearly imperceptible cut starts bleeding profusely and they decide to go a nearby clinic. On their journey to the clinic, while the bride leaves a long trail of blood in the snow, the groom discovers that his wife is pregnant.
After meeting with a doctor, the groom is sent to bring a missing medicine from the pharmacy. From that moment on the groom find many things strange and even disorienting. The night passes and the groom return to the clinic to reunite with his beloved. He Meets the doctor, and discovers to his surprise that his bride had died during the night. The groom comes out from the clinic alone and helpless in the face of fate.
"The trail of your blood in the snow" is based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is a fantastic story about a man confronting love, passion and loss.
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