After living in New York for many years, the Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returned to Israel for the making of this film. He used his privileged position as half insider and half outsider to analyze how much the Arab population of Israel is losing its national identity. Through his quasi-aimless roamings we become acquainted with his extended circle of family and friends. The characters lead a marginal existence in an occasionally surreal reality. The director/protagonist moves between the role of character and spectator, mediator and narrator, as the film itself moves between documentary fiction, reminiscence and present. The film is lucidly structured, funny and ironic.