Picked by Penny - August 9th 2016 Meeting
On
a hot summer day in 1947, on a grandstand overlooking Jerusalem, Elias and Lila
fall deeply, irrevocably in love.
Tragically,
they come from two different worlds. Elias is a Christian Arab living on the
eastern side of the newly divided city, and Lila is a Jew living on the western
side. A growing conflict between their cultures casts a heavy shadow over the
region and their burgeoning relationship. Between them lie not only a wall of
stone and barbed wire but also the bitter enmity of two nations at war.
