One day, as he is bird-hunting, he becomes the hero of a modern-day tale: Yussef falls in love with Aida, a young gypsy girl. To marry her, he must first find the three jewels missing from a family necklace brought from South America by the girl’s grandfather.

Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?

故事发生在上个世纪末，希特勒的上台导致大批犹太难民逃往巴勒斯坦，犹太人和巴勒斯坦人的种族矛盾抵达了一触即发的最顶峰。在这个节骨眼上，英国政府出面主持大局，然而它们的努力换来的只有巴勒斯坦人民的不满和犹太人的仇恨。
阿兰（克里斯蒂安·库克 Christian Cooke 饰）是一名善良的英国士兵，一次偶然中，他邂逅了名为克拉拉（卡塔琳娜·舒特勒 Katharina Schüttler 饰）的犹太女子，两人坠入了爱河。与此同时，阿兰还保持着同巴勒斯坦青年默罕默德（阿里·苏莱曼 Ali Suliman 饰）之间的友谊，只是，在紧张的局势下，阿兰的爱情和友情都经历着巨大的考验。