1948 The Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy Amal's own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Palestinian-Israeli tension, eventually taking her into exile in Pensylvania in America