Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in
Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family
from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948. Through the lives of
Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled's grandson Naji, we
enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after
another. Khaled's remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants
feel and share the family's struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it
falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.