Maya is happily married to Yoav, a senior official at the Ministry of Justice. They have two lovely
children and are very happily married.
But one evening Maya spots a figure from her past. She is scared and panicked but doesn’t dare say a word to
anyone. Terrified that her past has caught up with her she’s not able to sleep and her day-to-day life is
completely thrown off course.
She was Nadia Kabir, a 17-year-old Arab girl just graduated from the Jewish-Arab girls’ school in Jerusalem.
She was having a secret affair with Nimer, an activist in a Palestinian Liberation Movement. When Nimer is
sent to London on assignment they secretly marry. In London Nadia realizes the meaning of the step she has
taken – severing her ties with her family and beloved mother, as she embraces a life of exile and escape.
When the authorities catch Nimer Nadia is left on her own. She realizes there is no option of returning to
Israel, to her family: she’s a terrorist to the authorities and a disgrace to her family. But she meets a man who is
able to create a new life and a new identity for her as Maya.
The connection between the two lives: Maya and Nadia, is the core of the film. This connection has a t
remen- dous effect on everyone; it will drop a bombshell on Maya’s family, and leave Nadia’s mother in distress
and grief. This connection raises questions of identity, of the ability of society to accept the Other and forgive
their Otherness. It’s a story about innocent individuals who pay a terrible price, the victims of a society that
has gone awry, raising the question of when the private and the political merge and the boundaries are blurred.
How life seems to repeat itself and not learn from past mistakes.
