The film chronicles chapters in the history of Egyptian Jews who were forced out of Egypt due to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first half of the twentieth century up through their departure after the 1956 Tripartite Aggression. It seeks to track the shift in the identity of Egyptian society from one characterized by tolerance and freedom of religion to one that gradually—by entangling religious dogma with politics—alienated and expelled this minority. It also documents numerous official, popular, and religious stances within societal and political contexts, including the roles of the Royal Palace and the political police in suppressing the national leftist movement, to which many anti-Zionist Jewish intellectuals belonged. The film features several Egyptian Jews sharing memories of the years they lived in Egypt, their relationships with neighbors, classmates, and colleagues, and how conditions rapidly reversed following the Arab-Israeli wars, focusing on the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the era of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, both regarded by many as the definitive end of Jewish life in Egypt.
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