A group of youths, some religious, some secular, decide to postpone their mandatory military service and spend a year living together in the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem to promote understanding and cooperation between both communities, whose schism is tearing Israeli society apart.While concentrating on seeking mutual understanding among themselves, the group members find themselves at the outbreak of the October 2000 Intifada, under fire from nearby Beit Jala, witnessing any hopes for external peace being crushed before their eyes.