The raw idea was to tell two parallel stories. The first about the making of a documentary following the jubilee celebrations. The second about the middle age crisis of the filmmaker making this documentary - me - whose birthday coincides with that of the state.
For several months I wrestled with this idea but something was bothering me. I realized there was no way to mark these two anniversaries without marking a third - the Nakba - the 50th anniversary of the Palestinian catastrophe.

Now, the third channel of the script began to take shape. In this story line a Palestinian producer hires the same filmmaker to shoot stuff for a film the Palestinians are making to mark the Nakba.

The material he shoots for the Palestinian project takes the form of a kind of a disruption of the film (the "final" one, the one you watch.) Shots of ruined Palestinian houses and ruins of former Palestinian villages take over without warning.

I tried to make a film consisting of three different story lines that run through one man's consciousness. Only the materials here have greater freedom than usual. They run along the script notes for a while and then take over the script and create their own order of events. The filmmaker, poor guy, has to cope with the consequences of the new conjunctures.