The story of eight Palestinian Israeli families that have been turned into refugees in their own city. After forty years they recall the events that occurred in the Moghrabi Quarter of Jerusalem during the war of 1967. Each family goes to West Jerusalem to see their house which was taken from them in 1948.

The Surda checkpoint: the flow of people and the changes over time; how people deal with the situation and adapt, or don’t, and how the mood changes sometimes from resignation to confrontation.

This photo is not just a photo. It is life that moves toward life, and as the director says, "… the prettiest part of the photo is that it does not get older even though we do". Then he closes his camera and leaves. Leaving us with boys' laughter and their hopeful eyes looking silently at vast spaces in which they cannot find their own spot yet.

Leila, a student at a Palestinian girls school surrounded by Israeli military installations and settlements, is a Moslem girl. But she does not fit the widespread western stereotype, characterizing Arab women as weak and victimized. She is chatting on MSN, discussing Jimi Hendrix with her mother. Leila is strong, intelligent, outspoken and have her own idea of a daily life free from oppression and violence.