| Director | Darin J. Sallam, Darin Sallam |
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| Genre | drama film, historical drama |
| Runtime | 94 min |
| Country | Jordan |
While other girls are excited about their friend's marriage, 14-year-old Palestinian girl Farha dreams about pursuing education in the city like her best friend Farida. Farha demands this from her father Abu Farha, but he wants her to get married instead. Her uncle Abu Walid asks Abu Farha to consider Farha's request. One night in 1948, a group of local militias visit Abu Farha, who is the village chief and mayor, requesting that he join their fight against the Nakba. He refuses since his main purpose is to take care of his village.
During the wedding of Farha's friend, Abu Farha tells her that he had accepted her request to pursue education. While celebrating the news with Farida, Zionist militias attack the village; military speakers order the villagers to evacuate. Abu Farida takes Farha and Farida into his car to evacuate. Abu Farha decides to stay behind and entrusting Abu Farida to look after Farha, although she decides to join her father. Abu Farha takes her back home, arms himself with a rifle, and locks Farha in a store room, telling her to stay hidden and promising to take her when it is safe. For days, while awaiting news from her father, she continues to hear sounds of warfare and is only able to peer through a hole facing the courtyard.
A Palestinian family, Abu Mohammad and Um Mohammad and their two young children, enter the courtyard, where the mother gives birth to a baby boy. Farha asks Abu Muhammad to let her out but, before he can, Haganah militias demand the family come out and surrender. Abu Mohammad goes outside. A hooded Palestinian informant working for the Haganah appears to know the villager and tells the commander that Abu Mohammad is from a different village. The commander searches the house for guns and finds Mohammad's family hiding. The family, except the newborn baby, are executed at gunpoint, causing a moral crisis for the informant, who was promised that women and children would not be hurt in exchange for his collaboration. The informant goes to Farha and whispers her name. Farha can see his face briefly through the door, and realizes the collaborator is her uncle. He does not reveal her whereabouts to the militias. The commander asks a young soldier to execute the newborn baby without wasting a bullet. The soldier cannot bring himself to stomp on him and covers the infant in a towel, leaving him to die on the courtyard floor.
Farha struggles to open the door to get to the baby. After ransacking the pantry she finds a hidden pistol, which she uses to shoot the door lock and escape the village. Farha (whose real name is Raddiyah) never found her father, whose fate remained unknown but was probably killed during the Nakba. Farha eventually made her way to Syria and told her story which has been passed down through generations.