A documentary film maker is telling us the sad story of a real estate deal that went wrong. Parallel to that he goes on with his life and carreer and he is hired to do two jobs, one is a documentary about the cele­brations of the 50'th anniversry of the state of Israel (which coincidentally hap­ pens to be on his birthday). The other job is for a Palestinian producer who asks him to document with his camera sites in Israel, previously have been owned by Palestinians. This work turns out to be an investigative report that evokes feelings to the director too complex to handle. These separate stories develope together and are too difficult to be kept apart. The viewer is swept along in a trip through Israel, a state celebrating it's birthday, which is just another symbol being played with by politicians, that appear as if they are more fictive then the whole story itself. Only few things are real. The images that run backwards and seem to disturb the running story, appearing like TV ghost pic­tures showing us sites that used to be owned by Palestinians are real.