Saddened by her great-grandfather losing hope of ever returning home, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl starts to learn about her familys history.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 This doesn't look too good.
00:04 I'll write you a new prescription.
00:06 No, don't.
00:08 [HUMMING]
00:10 I got my report card.
00:13 Bravo, habibti.
00:15 And good you're back.
00:16 Mom's worried.
00:17 Everything is so expensive.
00:20 I'm afraid we'll have to take Warty out of school.
00:23 No!
00:23 [SLAP]
00:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:27 [HORN HONKING]
00:30 [BABY CRYING]
00:33 I want her to continue school.
00:36 Take care of this for me.
00:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:41 How do you see someone who lost everything, Warty?
00:47 I feel pity.
00:49 We didn't want their pity.
00:52 What did you want?
00:53 We wanted to go home.
00:55 They say all revolutions need sacrifices.
01:01 But we got nothing back.
01:02 No matter how dark it gets, try to find even the smallest ray
01:13 of light and stay there.
01:15 [LAUGHING]
01:17 You're a natural.
01:18 [LAUGHING]
01:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:24 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
01:26 Why doesn't he come down?
01:29 Maybe where he is, the world looks different.
01:34 Maybe he knows about hope.
01:37 Hope?
01:39 Who cares about hope?
01:41 I do.
01:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:47 (gentle music)