Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall--hailed for his severe allergy to conventional wisdom ( Time )--offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth..
Abed\'s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge.
He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem.
It is every parent\'s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian.
Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad\'s fate.
The scene is chaos--the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified.
His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site.
On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer.
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day
