West Bank, 1988. A Palestinian teenager resolutely joins local protests against Israeli soldiers. Suddenly, the scene freezes and, with fervor and anguish painted on her face, his mother turns to us—witnesses to the dark chapters of the last century and of these days—to begin telling the story of three generations of an uprooted family, starting in 1948, when Zionist paramilitary organizations expelled more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. |
