The director, Ryuichi Hirokawa went to Israel in 1967 and worked in a Kibbutz, an agricultural community.

One day, Hirokawa found rubble at the edge of the Kibbutz, which later proved to be the remains of one of the villages once lived in by the Palestinian people; his friend showed him and English map with the names of Palestinian villages with the word "destroyed" printed.

It is evidence of the fact that the Kibbutz was founded on land where the Palestinian had been destroyed. Hirokawa's journey to find out what had happened to the village started at that moment. In his journey into the past, he learned about nakba and history which and been waiting to be revealed.

The filmmaker has spent over 40 years reporting on Palestine.

• Official web site (English)
• Trailer (Japanese subtitles only)

http://www.hiropress.net/gallery/index.html