Saja Kilani

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

During the siege of their city, a group of ordinary people struggle to survive amid hunger, snipers, and bombardments, while clinging to human connection, love, and small daily pleasures. Faced with impossible moral choices and deep psychological strain, their lives become inseparable from the siege itself.

To break free from a forced marriage, Simsim hunts for her own replacement, but what she finds instead is her true self.

When an artist's carefully ordered world begins to fracture - brushes vanish, doors lock unexpectedly - she must unravel her daughter's lies to confront a truth that could shatter them both.