One rainy night at a Jerusalem checkpoint, Israeli Lieutenant Ari Doron is ordered to refuse a desperate, young Palestinian mother and her sick boy passage into the city. The incident leads to a series of riots, and Doron finds himself pulled into the bitter political aftermath as battles and bus bombs explode around him. He is drawn to Marina, the boy's American-born mother. And though she is on the other side of the bloody struggle, she finds herself thinking of Doron as "her soldier." In another place, at another time, they might have been lovers.