In Yarmouk (Palestinian refugee camp in Syria), the Shebabs, a small group friends since they were teens, is now on the eve of adulthood and thirst for life experiences, yet are confronted by intricate situations. Between the need for freedom and sticking to the group, between longing for revolt and the prospect of a well-ordered life, choices are hard to make.

Stop-Over is set in Athens, not so much a destination place, as much as a place of transition. Bakhtiari's real life stars are immigrants without papers who left Iran and travelled through Athens in order to get to other European countries.

In the fertile Jordan Valley, there is a group of Palestinian farmers whose pastures have been declared military areas, their water wells have been closed down and the water has been diverted to the Jewish residents of the valley.

The film chronicles cultural destruction, the story of 70,000 looted Palestinian books during the 1948 war by the newly born State of Israel. 

The film is a modern-day Oskar Schindler story that focuses on Kirk Johnson. After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad and Fallujah to help rebuild Iraq, Kirk returns home only to discover that many of his former Iraqi colleagues are being killed, kidnapped or forced into exile by radical militias for having cooperated with the US.