An adolescent boy in a kibbutz of the 1960s. A relationship between the boy and a young kibbutznik who serves in an elite unit. The boy dreams of resuming the train that once passed through the valley. In the background, Israeli wars disrupt life.

Shaul and Rami are best friends, 40 years old. Both are in unhappy marriages, but Rami has found comfort in the arms of a Russian immigrant with whom he's having an affair.

Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.

A story of an army colonel who is fighting the accusations in committing war crime but his only witness is comatose in the hospital.

Nine-year-old Roy likes a bottle of colored sand. A bedouin in Sinai tries to sell it to him.

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." Experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.