“The administrative manager is my right hand,” Orna’s (Liron Ben-Shlush) new boss tells her in the trailer for Israeli drama “Working Woman.” She assists him at his realty firm, travels with him, closes deals with him, and eventually becomes the shining star of his company. Unfortunately, Orna’s job doesn’t just come with a sense of accomplishment and trips abroad: her boss, Benny (Menashe Noy), also harasses her in increasingly unsettling ways.

“Do you mind if I make a comment?” Benny asks Orna. Without bothering to wait for her answer, he opines, “I think your hair down would suit you.” Definitely not an appropriate comment for work, but harmless. But then he keeps calling her at home at all hours, apparently to talk business. That’s definitely crossing a work-life boundary, but not uncommon. Then when he and Orna are working late, he shuts off the office’s lights and plays dumb when she calls him out. Now there’s no ignoring it: Benny is a predator.

In a soon-to-be-published interview with Women and Hollywood, “Working Woman” director Michal Aviad said she hopes the film inspires audiences to think more deeply about the myriad forms of workplace harassment. “[With the film,] I wanted to understand better the boundaries of sexual harassment at work and what are or can be the influences of such relationships on a working woman’s relationships with her husband and family, and ability to work,” she revealed. “I’d like viewers to experience the complexity and shades of sexual harassment at work, by identifying with the heroine and her life.”

“Working Woman” premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July. It will make its international debut at TIFF on September 11. It has already nabbed a North American theatrical run, but no official release date has been set yet.