Sean Penn, some sort of math professor with a bad ticker, gets the heart of the dead man, at which point he begins to follow around the grieving widow (Naomi Watts).
When a reporter passed away a few years back, dropping dead from an unexpected heart attack, his friend placed the potted plants he kept at the office on the now-empty desk.
The contradiction at the heart of Mr Blair's reforms was always the absurdity of removing the dead hand of local government, only to impose an even tighter grip from the centre.
Those that managed to escape to Israel before the gates were locked were treated as unwanted dead-weight by Barak and his media flacks who couldn't be bothered with the treachery at the heart of the operation.