A short fiction film by Nora Alsharif, inspired by a day in the life of the Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout (1930–2006). After his family is expelled from their home by Israeli forces in 1948, young Ismail struggles to support his parents in a refugee camp, selling cakes at the train station with his little brother while holding on to his dream of studying painting in Rome.
One day the two brothers stray into a minefield. Facing death and fighting to save his brother, Ismail reveals the spirit that would later make him one of the defining artists of the Palestinian experience. Ismail is a moving portrait of the Nakba seen through the early life of a young artist.
