Shayma' was six years old when the Second Intifada broke out. More than twenty years later she opens a box of old videotapes that starts her search for memories. In voice-over she addresses her mother who says she is blessed with a poor memory. Shayma' by contrast still remembers exactly what she wore on her first day of school: her new school uniform with a lace collar and a white bow in her hair. She also remembers spying her birthday cake through a crack in the kitchen door of their house which had been confiscated by Israeli soldiers.