Three Palestinian widows and their eleven children are caught on an edge: their house is on the border between states at eternal war. The front opens to Israeli military control, the back to Palestinian Authority rule. Trapped in the middle, the women and their children attempt a normal life-if all normal homes had snipers on the roof and soldiers storming up the stairs. Outside, Israeli settlers demonstrate, soldiers stomp and shout; inside, the women cook, clean, condemn, and dream. Theirs is a detainment without arrest-military lock–downs combine with their status as widows to thwart physical and emotional freedom. Two Israeli women filmmakers entered these women's homes to present their story and to capture their courage: "We wished to present the arbitrariness of occupation, as seen through the barred windows of an occupied house, to capture the thin line between a smile and a gunshot."