Stranger at Home plot
When the director, Rudolf van den Berg heard in the spring of 1984 that his Palestinian friend Kamal Boullata, living in America, would be visiting his native country for the first time in eighteen years, he decided to make a cinematic report of that trip, because he recognized in it 'the myth of redemption', the story of the return. During the trip, this theme involuntarily fades into the background, due to the concrete political situation in the country where the Jew Van den Berg is welcome, but where the native Boullata is treated with the greatest suspicion.