This debut feature by Maysaloun Hamoud gives a fascinating glimpse into the lives of three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv as they navigate their lives in between the cultures surrounding them.
Layla, Salma and Nour share an apartment in Tel Aviv's Yemenite quarter, and while they're from different backgrounds they have one thing in common; they're trying to be true to themselves.
Layla (Hawa) is a successful and sexually liberated lawyer who likes to party hard, while quieter Salma (Jammelieh) is a part time chef and DJ who's afraid to tell her Christian parents she's gay. They're joined in their flat by the pious and hijab-wearing Nour (Kanboura), who is resisting her fiance's wish to marry quickly and return to his village, so she can complete her computer-science degree.
You expect some cultural clash, and at first there is - Nour is taken aback by her flatmate's liberated lives. But, as their romantic and family relationships go sour and the reality hits that their modern lives aren't accepted by either mainstream Israelis or their own conservative Palestinian worlds, they only have each other for support.
