A teenage Arabic girl is forced to instantly to become the caregiver for her younger siblings when her mother and father are brutally murdered in their home. After watching this horrific event she sneaks her siblings out of the house and they go on the run. Running from village to village, sleeping in the streets, stealing and begging for food and all the while fighting to stay alive in a country that is forever at war. The sounds of bombs going off, the unrest of having to pack up and run because the military is moving in to rather the bodies of the dead. Trying to explain to her siblings why this is the life that they are forced to live weighs on her daily. When one of her little brothers gets sick she must decide if she will leave him at the hospital for care knowing she will never see him again and he will be put into an Israeli orphanage or does she allow him to die with his family and join his parents? This story is about the struggle of being a teenager in a place not many of us know, but for many it is very real and it is their war at home.
(*Student may speak Arabic within the piece)
