A film adaptation of the novel by David Grossman, which won the actor Tuncel Kurtiz the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. At the center of the film are three individuals, each of whom sheds light from a different angle on the sheer futility and dangers that lie in Israel’s ongoing occupation of the West Bank. Katzman is a government officer who used to pontificate about an “enlightened occupation.” Leniado, his best friend, is a military doctor who personifies the very absurdity of his own job title. Then, there is Hilmi, whose adopted son turned to terrorism and was subsequently shot by Israeli security forces. The latter takes his physician friend hostage and threatens to execute him unless Israeli forces withdraw at once from the Occupied Territories.