Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?
It’s the Gulf War. Two soldiers, an American and an Iraqi, find themselves
lost in the desert, and the relationship between them is seen through
the eyes of an iguana. The American is trying to get through to
headquarters so that he can be rescued. The Iraqi flatters the American,
deferring to him as General Schwarzpot, and is willing to humiliate
himself just to get some food and drink. When it becomes clear to the
American that the Iraqi is hiding drugs, he promises him a good, rich life
in America. At the moment of truth, though, he will leave him to his fate.
