SUMMARY
From a young age, Nour Al Ghussein from Gaza stood out. She was selected for global leadership programs in South Africa and at Harvard, neither of which could she attend due to the siege on Gaza. Next, she was the only Gazan woman selected to attend a student leadership program at Portland State University in the US. Her brief stay there led to her being accepted to study Business on a full scholarship after she had returned to Gaza, despite having lost two years of education due to wars and other problems in Gaza.
In cinema verité style, the film shadows the intrepid Nour, 21, as she struggles mightily to overcome the draconian restrictions on Gazans who wish to leave the Strip, even if they have the most compelling case to do so. Somehow she must find a way out through either the Erez Checkpoint, controlled by Israel, or the Rafah Crossing, controlled by Egypt.
This documentary was directed by the late Yasser Murtaja, a Palestinian journalist and filmmaker from Gaza who was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper on April 6, 2018, while covering the Great March of Return on the Gaza-Israel border.