This programme films several kinds of mixed marriages between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs ranging across different generations and social classes and tries to show - through these couples - the human side to one aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict. There is, for example, a Jewish girl who fell in love with a Palestinian in the 1940’s, a Haya who married a Palestinian historian, two young Arab women who each loved a Jew and married him, one with her parents’ consent and the other against the wishes of her family, who still threaten to kill her. There are more modern set-ups where a couple live together without marriage, where one Jewish woman has been accepted to be the second wife of an Arab and another who went to live with her husband in a Gaza refugee camp.

The aim of this documentary is to confront these couples’ stories with the religious marital codes of each of the three monotheistic faiths in order to show the Middle East’s urgent need for a civil code of marriage which liberates the individual from all religious constraints and gives her/him the freedom to choose.