A feature film by Kassem Hawal, based on Ghassan Kanafani’s celebrated novella. In 1967, after the occupation of the West Bank, Palestinian refugees are for the first time able to visit the homes they were expelled from in 1948.
A couple travel from Ramallah to their old house in Haifa, where they left their baby son behind in the chaos of the Nakba, and discover what has become of the house and of the child. The film is one of the most important screen adaptations of Kanafani’s work.
