A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home. Read More
The film deals with the story of the Palestinian Nakba from a different angle, through the unique journey of a Palestinian director who follows the steps of his grandfather (master) on his old trade route between northern and southern Palestine, to explore the impact of villages destroyed or changed to become Israeli, and record the memory of the inhabitants of the land, both indigenous and settlers.
Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada.
On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel decalres Martial law in all the occupied Arab teritories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafar Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafar Kassem”.
