The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Reuters/Pawel Ulatowski

A drama about Israeli high school friends who visit Holocaust sites in Poland before starting their military service will soon come to the United States, The Algemeiner has learned.

A shy teen named Frisch, an aspiring artist named Nitzan and the class hunk Ido are the three friends at the center of Delegation, known in Hebrew as Ha’Mishlahat, from Israeli writer-director Asaf Saban. During their class trip to Poland — which is also their last time together before they enlist in the Israel Defense Forces — these three friends deal with issues related to love, friendship and politics that will change their life as they visit the site of former Nazi concentration camps and Holocaust memorials.

In Israel it is customary for high schools to take students on education trips to Poland to visit the site of former concentration camps and learn about the Holocaust before the teens graduate and prior to their military service.

“At the height of adolescence – with all the confusion, lack of perspective, hormonal chaos and emotional upheaval it entails – tens of thousands of young Israelis each year go abroad for the first time without their parents to experience an emotional intensity that is hard to process and understand for an adult, let alone a teenager,” Saban said. “The nature and structure of the trip is intended to create an emotional experience that in many ways resembles the religious experience of a pilgrimage to holy sites. The natural urge of young people to undergo shocking experiences adds another layer to their emotional expectations of this trip to Poland.”

Watch the trailer for Delegation below.