This documentary is the record of the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, many of whom are veterans from the Nakba in 1948. In their own words, they describe the moments when they became refugees. They described the brutality in which they were deported, or the fear of massacre that made them and their families flee. Their stories of refugee struggles are interspersed with poems of Mahmoud Darwish.

About the Filmmaker:

Mohammad Bakri was born in the Palestinian village of Bi'ina in the Galilee in 1953. He attended elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Acre. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 where he graduated two years later. Bakri began his professional acting career in with Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, Haifa theater and al-Kasaba theater in Ramallah. His one-man plays, "The Pessoptimist," 1986, "The Anchor," 1991, "Season of Migration to the North 1993," and "Abu Marmar," 1999, were performed in Hebrew and Arabic. After a few years of acting in Palestinian films, Bakri began to act in international films in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Canada. Bakri also directed two documentary films including Jenin, Jenin.