Said (Kais Nashef) and Khaled (Ali Suliman) are two young people from the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus. They have been good friends since childhood, working together in a car repair shop. Said is quieter, while Khaled has a great temper and often has conflicts with customers but is relatively simple, thinking about jihad. Said's father was an Israeli collaborator (collaborator?), a collaborator in the eyes of the Arabs, and this background in his childhood also buried a postscript for his future behavior. Said met a girl Suha (Lubna Azabal) while repairing his car, and the two fell in love with each other. This emotional factor also affected Said's actions in the future. Suha is the daughter of a respected jihadist leader in Palestine, and the leader himself should have died in jihad. Suha was born in Europe, grew up in Morocco, and was educated in the West, so his words and deeds are closer to those of Western anti-war people, and he plays a role similar to a moral questioner in the film.
In fact, Said and Khaled have been the body bombs chosen by a Palestinian resistance group for two years. They have been trained, including how to avoid the inspection of Israeli security personnel,…………
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