Jacksonville Film Festival 2008

In the mid-1950s Dorian Paskowitz was a successful doctor living the good life in the territory of Hawaii, until two devastating divorces and the realization that he had no interest in money or status caused him to completely upend his life. Dorian dropped his practice and traveled to Israel for a year where he lived among the Bedouins and developed a lifelong obsession of a healthy diet, and introduced surfing to Israel, becoming a hero in the burgeoning Tel Aviv beach scene. Returning to the states, he met his Mexican wife Juliette, and the rest was history. They fell madly in love, steered clear of society, lived out of a tiny camper on the beach and had seven sons in rapid succession: David, Jonathan, Abraham, Israel, Moses, Adam, and Salvador Daniel. Then they had one daughter, Navah, and their ninth child, Joshua.

Southeast Premiere