The story recounted in this film has widely been publicised as “The Zeitoun incident” and took place in January 2009 in a rural suburbia of the city of Gaza in Palestine, where, over the course of one night, 48 civilians were killed in an Israeli attack. The Samouni family, who we will be following throughout Stefano Savona’s film, lost 29 of its members that night, among which men, women and children. However, the director manages to steer us away from this blind massacre and the land devastations — scenes we see everyday in the media. Through his matter-of-fact approach towards the Samounis, his unsentimental style of filming and illustrating what they went through (with the use of animation by Stefano Massi, for one), we meet an ordinary and peace-loving Palestinian family, a family of farmers trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of suffering a major trauma. How do you revisit past wounds, and can you? What words can express how you feel, or what are the words that can heal you (at least a little bit)? We join the protagonists on this path in their lives, beginning with the opening scene of the film — a wedding in the Samouni family. (Vanina Vignal)