A cinema vérité excursion into everyday life in the occupied territories looks very much like a war film, or a postapocalpytic fantasy, at once tragic (children suffering the horrible effects of nerve gas; death and homelessness by bulldozer) and absurd (a traffic jam on the beach, as merchants attempt to get around the Israeli blockade). Much of Gaza Strip is shown through the sad, jaded eyes of 13-year-old Mohammed, who dropped out of school long ago and, having witnessed his best friend's gruesome death by gunfire, now lives to throw stones at Israeli soldiers, one wasted youth among many. American filmmaker Longley makes neither effort nor claim to showing “all sides” of this story. One side at a time is painful enough. “A documentary to make the stones weep” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).