"... tells the interwoven stories of a group of men and women in a small neighborhood outside of Jerusalem, all trying to make themselves a home in a war-torn world. It is 1995, and Amir, a young man studying psychology in Tel Aviv, and his girlfriend Noa, studying photography in Jerusalem, decie to move in together, choosing a tiny aprtment midway between their two cities - a village that was emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1946. Although the two stuents are only looking for a convenient place to spend time together, they find their new home to be no less complex a web of rlationships than urban life... " -- back cover.