Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi to take him through an Israeli checkpoint. The driver, Farouk, discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the checkpoint. Trouble begins.
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.
Akram left his native Arab village to work as a construction worker in Tel Aviv. Secretly he is in love with an Israeli actress living downstairs in his building. The film deals with the cultural gap between urban and rural space.
