“A moving profile in musical courage.” (The Hollywood Reporter)

Documentary filmmaker Laura Bialis (Refusenik) returned to Israel in 2007 looking for a great story, and ended up in Sderot, on the edge of the Negev Desert bordering Gaza. The small, besieged city was established in the 1950s as a transit camp for immigrants coming first from Arab countries and later from Ethiopia. Today, it’s a city of factory workers and rock musicians, the children of refugees who seek solace from rocket fire in music. Together, in underground bomb shelters, they create magical rhythms, transforming contemporary Israeli music using North African and Western beats. As Bialis films the pulsating music scene, she crosses the line from observer to participant in this dramatic, touching, and unflinchingly real view of a life led by people coping with the seemingly impossible.