»If we had not confronted the taboos of our present, my mother’s stories would have been reduced to self-indulgence and nostalgia. And so my story telling film became a witness to a new story still in the making – a story about my family’s efforts to once more climb the wall that unjustly insists on separating our principles from our humanity.«
– Nadia Kamel

Mary Kamel – mother of filmmaker Nadia – has a complex family history, spread across the Mediterranean, with a multi-ethnic, multireligious and multi-lingual mix. She was born in Cairo as the daughter of a Jew and an Italian Catholic mother, and converted to Islam on marrying Egyptian author Sa’ad Kamel. She is both Italian and Egyptian, but also a communist, feminist and pacifist. She tries – together with filmmaker Nadia – to explain to her grandson Nabeel (who is of Egyptian-Italian- Palestinian-Lebanese origin, with Russian, Caucasian, Turkish and Spanish blood) the family background of the past 100 years, including a trip, controversial among relatives, to visit her Egyptian-Jewish family in Israel, whom she hasn’t seen since 1946 … A moving story about humanity, tolerance and diversity.