Private plot
The B. family is central to the film. Their house is situated halfway between the Israeli settlements and an Arab village. The B. family is reasonably well-off and educated. The father Mohammad is the director of a secondary school. A great lover of British literature, he is on the cusp of a PhD on the work of Margaret Oliphant, a Victorian-era feminist writer. After a firefight, the Israeli war takes possession of the second floor of their house for security reasons and asks the family to leave the house. Mohammad does not agree, he does not want to leave, the house is the limit of his dignity, to lose means to surrender himself and his family forever to the hatred of the Israelis.