East Wind

A strong east wind brings snow rain and also memories of her father Only a few objects newspaper clippings and diary entries make him present But Maia would like to know him better to piece together a complete portrait from the fragments For this reason she leaves Argentina the land of her home and travels to the West Bank where her absent parent comes from But at first she finds only more ruins the remains of houses destroyed by the Israeli occupiers As slowly as the calm sea ripples the authors pilgrimage to her roots turns into an encounter with an entire nation that has been stripped of its home The shared experience of loss helps her to fill the empty space in her heart