Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows up, calling to mind a painful past.
Himmat Zoubi is a Palestinian urban sociologist and feminist activist whose research explores the intersections of settler colonialism, urban transformation, and resistance in Palestine. She holds a PhD in sociology and has held several postdoctoral fellowships in Berlin, focusing on how cities, culture, and neoliberalism shape colonial control and spaces of political imagination. In 2025, she and Mada al-Carmel received an Urban Studies Foundation award for organizing international seminars on “Urban Genocide in Gaza” highlighting spatial violence and resistance from a critical, multidisciplinary perspective.