خلاصه داستان : عروسی در جلیل یک فلسطینی به دنبال مجوز اسرائیل برای صرف نظر از مقررات منع رفت و آمد برای جشن عروسی پسرش است. شرط فرماندار نظامی حضور او و افسرانش است. داماد پدرش را به خاطر موافقتش سرزنش می کند. زنان به صورت تشریفاتی عروس را آماده می کنند...

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?