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In Quneitra, which was destroyed by the Israelis after its occupation, there is the grave of a father who was once a mujahid. The film's author tries to search for the story of this father through the mother's memory, and her story awakens in him features of a memory that bears the taste of a question and the bitterness of an answer. The father had passed by Quneitra one day in 1936 on his way to Palestine as a mujahid to join the "Qassam" revolution against the Zionists and the British. Then he passed by again while returning from Palestine defeated. Its air enchanted him, and he decided to marry and settle there. Once again, he went to Palestine with the Salvation Army in 1947, then returned from it with the first signs of the Nakba and the loss of Palestine... but he remained attached to ideals and dreams, charged with the spirit of jihad. The first military coup takes place in 1949 and the army seizes power. The father refuses the coup, but in his refusal he receives a slap in the face of humiliation and imprisonment at the hands of his countrymen. He decides to die, and dies burdened with oppression, and is buried somewhere in Quneitra. The son lives this death of his father and inherits from him the bitterness of humiliation and the burden of questioning.

In the destroyed Quneitra today, the son restores the father's biography, and desires another death for him that he wants to be honorable: martyrdom in resisting the Israeli occupation of his city, Quneitra. With this desired death, the author tries to wash away the shame of memory from his father and his destroyed city.

Directed by Mohamad Malas

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