To Ikhlas, a young mother, the most important things in life are her two children, all that is left from an arranged marriage in her teens. Her youngest son Nasser was imprisoned by the Israelis when he was only 15 for defending the cause of the Palestine people. Ikhlas is willing to accept any sacrifice in order to remain in contact with him, but she cannot help wondering whether this is really what her people need to do in order to defend themselves.

Hay mish Eishi, features portraits of 8 Palestinian women from different social and religious backgrounds exploring how they live war and imagine peace in the profound depth of lived realities and felt pains. These are not unusual women, women leaders or exceptional women in the news media sense. They are media and theatre professionals, farming women, a cleaning woman, a boutique owner, a university student, a high school teenage girl, and housewives. These are the ordinary lives which make up the news and which the news makes invisible. They speak with passion, bewilderment, anger, rage and outrage?.they situate themselves in a life of dignity and productivity, where their lives and actions are not reduced to a bundle of fear.They speak of profound losses - of self and direction, livelihood, land, homes and family members. What they say so powerfully and directly through their hopes and wishes is that they want a life of meaning, of sharing, of giving, of routines and rituals, of loving and caring, of ordinariness with all its blessings and grace.They do not want the degrading, terrorizing drama of war

Through the story of Bir'im, a destroyed Palestinian village, we encounter Nahida and two other women from the kibbutz built on its land. The trio's moving story focuses on a struggle for the return of the villagers to their homeland, a central issue in the Palestinian experience.