August 19th 2003, a blazing hot summer day. The heat and humidity are broken by a news break, which surprisingly succeeds in evoking smiles on faces all over Israel.
For the first time in the history of the state a cunning thief succeeds in stealing         4.7 million Shekels (about 1 million dollars) from Brinks, the international company specializing in transfer of money and valuables.
The legend was created in hours with rumors spreading like fire. The immaculate robbery  succeeded in raising the national morale - if such a morale exists. All thanks to this guy, Ilan, who succeeded in overcoming the system: committing a theft without firing a single shot and without hurting anyone but the insurance companies and the big banks – a notion which brings joy and happiness to any law abiding citizen who is used to being trampled by these same establishments.
A couple of days pass and there is no trace of the thief.
Apparently, he impersonated someone else in order to be hired by Brinks in spite of their strict entry conditions (including polygraph tests, finger prints, shooting gallery, etc.) and just like that - took off with a million dollars.
To everyone’s great disappointment and incomprehension, while the best police detectives thought he was probably sunning himself on a beach in Mexico with drinks and girls all around, the thief turned himself in.
That is the point at which we chose to start the film 4.7 million. That is the point at which reality interferes with Hollywood dreams and dulls some of the glamour.
Ilan Segal Cooperman, the cunning thief who was admired by the whole country for five days, grew up in poverty, in a slum, and the great theft seems to be the outcry of all the inhabitants of his neighborhood and other similar neighborhoods. A cry of frustration for the neglect and futureless lives and the enormous gap in Israeli society between the rich upper classes and the poor who have no chance to escape their plight. 
4.7 million fluctuates between fantasy and the present.