Minor Detail

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949 one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ''minor detail'' of history. A haunting meditation on war ...See More