Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi originally tried to enter Gaza but was turned away, so she began interviewing Fatima Hassouna, a young Palestinian woman, from April 2024 holding a number of video conversations.
During these meetings, which were often interrupted by poor connection or Israeli bombings, we see the joyful and endearing Hassouna and her family living day-to-day, month-to-month trying to survive as the city around them falls apart.
For Hassouna, Farsi became her connection to the outside world and they kept this line of life going for more than 200 days. The bits of pixels and sounds that they exchanged constitute the honest and moving film we see. Fatima's assassination on April 16, 2025, following an Israeli attack on her home, has forever changed its meaning.
