I saw this movie on Netflix and it depicts the tale of a young girl who lives in a Palestinian village with her father in 1948 at the beginning of the invasion of her homeland.
This gripping film will leave you on the edge of your seat as you watch her hide out in a storage room while witnessing the displacement of her community and the assassination of the families in the region.
It does an excellent job of depicting how colonization can devastate an entire country, displace its people and obliterate generations of families that share a heritage to that homeland spanning hundreds of years.
I cannot recommended this movie enough. The acting in this film was superb, highlighting the beauty of Palestinian culture through clothes, food and customs. The actors showed the struggle of balancing traditional customs with the increasing demand for women's right to education.
Overall, the nail biting experience of the main character will give you insight into the Palestinian peoples' resistance to the occupation and the catastrophe that we know as the Nakba.
