After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement during the 1948 Nakba and weaving through the decades that follow. Starring alongside the great Saleh Bakri, Palestinian American writer/director Cherien Dabis’s (Amreeka, May in the Summer) expansive, profoundly moving film details with utter precision the years of shared trauma between generations.

Content advisory: mature themes